As reported by my former cohorts at the Huffington Post, I’ve been hired by the uber-smart authors of Freakonomics to be the editor of their soon-to-be-upgraded website, Freakonomics.com. I’ll be writing and editing posts, working on video content, recruiting other uber-smart economists, authors and journalists to guest blog, and just generally handling any and all Freakonomic duties as they arise.
So feel free to come by and check it out if you’re looking for a dose of conventional wisdom debunking (first order of business: Shredding the endlessly quoted (to me, anyway) statistic that “couples who live together are 60% more likely to get divorced if they ever get married” - that’s up there with “women over 40 are more likely to be torn apart by rabid wildebeests than find a husband” in levels of unadulterated absurdity).