Vertically integrated non-state networks

Dan at tdaxp reviews a valuable section of the counter-intuitive Freakonomics. Worth reading the entire thing.

Comments

[jamie]

Interesting, but the methodology on that chapter is taken apart fairly comprehensively here:

http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2005_11_27_d-squareddigest_archive.html#113336769665072876

[Iconic]

Yes, that is a nice write up Jamie...

Think people like Dan's icons ;)

[Dan tdaxp]

Jamie,

Thanks for the link. The explanation for low monetary rewards for gangsters -- that they get high non-monetary rewards -- was the first one I heard from the authors. I believe it was on NPR. I wonder if they changed their opinion, or just had more space to discuss the topic than in the book.

Iconic,

Thank you for the kind words -- I'm no iconoclast :)