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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?

These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life?from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing?and whose conclusions turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives?how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and?if the right questions are asked?is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

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Posted: Oct-24-2009
Do we need evidence based policy making and can these kind of books help?

This book provides a good case of using data analysis to shake common "wisdom". To put it in other words, like it or not, this is yet another example of hard evidence based analysis which may be considered a panacea against 'expert...

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Posted: Oct-22-2009
Excellent!

Many of my friends have recommended this book and I finally bought it and read it. I thought it was a very interesting way to look at the world and was a very good read. Highly recommend it!

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Posted: Oct-22-2009
very interesting look at society

Good book which looks at various aspects of society you might not think about in day-to-day life. People seem to either love of hate this one. Some of the information is a bit hard to swallow, so many people disregard it. Even if...

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Posted: Oct-21-2009
A good read

Freakonomics is a whirlwind tour of the unexpected. It definitely changed a few of my preconceived notions of a few things (Drug Dealers especially). As a result, I started seeing things more as a function of economy than people's...

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Do we need evidence based policy making and can these kind of books help?

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Who can we trust?

One lesson I've learned from reading this book isNever trust conventional wisdom without a second thought!One point the authors have reiterated several times isEverybody, the senator, lawyer, real estate agent, doctor, teacher, you and...

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