Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

By: Levitt, Steven DContributor(s): Dubner, Stephen JMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2006Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: xv, 320 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0061234001; 9780061234002Subject(s): Economics -- Psychological aspects | Economics -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 330
Contents:
Introduction : the hidden side of everything -- 1. What do schoolteachers and Sumo wrestlers have in common? -- 2. How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? -- 3. Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? -- 4. Where have all the criminals gone? -- 5. What makes a perfect parent? -- 6. Perfect parenting, part II; or, would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet? -- 7. Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.
Review: "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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the hidden side of everything -- 1. What do schoolteachers and Sumo wrestlers have in common? -- 2. How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? -- 3. Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? -- 4. Where have all the criminals gone? -- 5. What makes a perfect parent? -- 6. Perfect parenting, part II; or, would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet? -- 7. Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.

"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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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