Hustlenomics?

Posted by John Holbo

Link. Truly, Freakonomics has now entered the mainstream/jumped the shark. Hustlenomics tips from Yung Joc on YouTube (1, 2, 3).

posted on Saturday, September 1st, 2007 at 5:04 am
comments

  1. Whoa, that made even less sense than the crime and abortion paper.

    Posted by arthur · September 1st, 2007 at 5:21 am

  2. i guess this is the ‘max power’ way of economics then?

    (for non-simpson geeks, the meaning:

    Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.

    Bart: Isn’t that just the wrong way?
    Homer: Yeah, but faster! )

    Posted by almostinfamous · September 1st, 2007 at 4:22 pm

  3. Thuggonomics certainly predated the Levitt/Dubner book (I remember idly wondering whether there were subfields of international thuggonomics, macrothuggonomics, thuggometrics, etc), so this might too.

    Posted by dsquared · September 1st, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  4. My four year old daughter recently started to word “cube” to be “frozen”, due to a misunderstanding of what part of the word “ice cube” referred to which characteristic of the item. If you think about it, it kind of makes 4-year-old-logical sense.

    Is there a term for things like that, or the use of—nomics as a suffix, where exactly the wrong part of the word or phrase gets assigned the meaning?

    Posted by Rich B. · September 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pm

  5. Former Chelsea player and current Leeds manager Denis Wise has to be the leading microthuggonomist.

    Posted by Chris Bertram · September 1st, 2007 at 7:29 pm

  6. hmmm, maybe there’s a controversy within hustlernomics between the neo-classical hustleronomists and heterodox thuggonomists.

    Posted by dsquared · September 1st, 2007 at 8:46 pm

  7. My four-year-old cousin uses the word “gavagai” to mean rabbit, when, as everyone knows, it really means “undetached rabbit part”.

    Posted by engels · September 1st, 2007 at 8:48 pm