Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything PDF Download Ebook. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner set up this unconventional premise. If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents the way it actually does work.
It is true that readers of this book will probably be armed with sufficient riddles and tales to final a thousand cocktail parties. But this book can provide more than that. It's going to actually redefine the best way we view the modern world. Which is extra dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in widespread? Why do drug sellers still live with their mothers? How much do mother and father really matter? How did the legalization of abortion have an effect on the speed of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He's a much-heralded scholar who research the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to sports activities and child-rearing-and whose conclusions flip conventional knowledge on its head.
Authors usually start with a mountain of information and a easy question. A few of these questions concern life-and-loss of life points; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the brand new discipline of study contained on this book: freakonomics.
Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner show that economics is, at root, the examination of incentives-how individuals get what they need, or need, especially when different folks want or need the identical thing. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher.
What unites all these stories is a perception that the modern world, regardless of a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is just not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and-if the proper questions are asked-is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new method of looking.
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