Greg Mankiw on Freakonomics

About two weeks ago, Silvio Rendon posted about Steve Levitt's book Freakonomics.

On this post Silvio gave us some interesting links about the current debate among "reducedformniks" and "structurals". Since the original post is in spanish, I reprodruce here the links for english-speaking fellows:

• How to do empirical Economics
• How Freaknomics is Ruining the dismal science by Noam Scheiber. Also avaliable here

I asked Harvard's Professor Gregory Mankiw about his opinion on the last one, and today, I'm happily surprised to see his comments here. Thanks for the answer!

Actualization: Steve Levitt himself responds to N. Scheiber on his Freakonomics blog. You can read it here: am I ruining Economics or not?

I summarize my opinions here (mostly in spanish, sorry.)