Steven Levitt is smart and I don’t know why I don’t read his shit

Steven Levitt is maybe someone you’ve read. I haven’t and I’m going to start. He writes blog entries for the New York Times and is also famous for his book called Freakonomics. An economist by trade, Levitt is more like a cultural economist.

Watching him on the Colbert Report from a few months back, he mentioned that people named Stephen tend to come from wealthier, more educated families than people named Steven. Which instantly interested me, as Stephen is my middle name. I wonder if I should start going by Steve. Maybe when i meet people I’m not really interested in, I’ll go by Steve just to protect myself. It’ll be my alter-ego.

Here’s Part 1 of Levitt on the Colbert Report, and here’s part 2. And Spike.com actually has some decent streaming television snippets.