http://www.metafilter.com/tags/stevenlevitt Posts tagged with 'stevenlevitt' at MetaFilter. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:20:31 -0800 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:20:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64809/Some%2DLight%2DReading <a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/papers/Hatred%20and%20Profits,%20Getting%20Under%20the%20Hood%20of%20the%20Ku%20Klux%20Klan.pdf"><em>Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan</em></a> (50 page pdf). <a href="http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/home.html">Steven Levitt</a>, of freakonomics fame, along with <a href="http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/fryer.html">Roland Fryer</a>, has just released a new academic paper that assesses the rise and fall of the KKK from a variety of perspectives. <a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/hatred-and-profits-getting-under-the-hood-of-the-ku-klux-klan/">From one of the authors</a> <em>...It details the rise and fall of the Klan in the 1920s. Incredibly, the Klan had millions of members at that time, and most of them were reasonably well-educated. Based on a variety of data sources, we argue that, despite its size and education levels, the group nevertheless had little measurable impact on society or politics...</em> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64809 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:20:31 -0800 economics freakonomics kkk rolandfryer stevenlevitt jourman2