Quotes from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's books, and about them
Freakonomics on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: “One of Levitt's great-uncles, Robert May, wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—the book, that is; another great-uncle, Johnny Marks, later wrote the song.”
Freakonomics on Goodnight Moon: “'Parenting experts' make women feel like ogres if they slip out of the house to work or skip a reading of Goodnight Moon.”
Freakonomics on The Klan Unmasked: “The Klan Unmasked, Kennedy's memoir of his exploits "inside" the Klan, is in fact more of a novelization than a straight nonfiction account.”
Freakonomics on More Guns, Less Crime: “His calling card is the book More Guns, Less Crime, in which he argues that violent crime has decreased in areas where law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons.”
Freakonomics on The Worldly Philosophers: “so too is Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953), which contains memorable profiles of Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, and other giants of economics.”