Freakonomics

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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.

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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 4/5. Stephen Dubner, the host of Freakonomics Radio, and Angela Duckworth, the psychologist and author of Grit, explore the weird and wonderful ways in which humans behave.

In each episode, they take turns asking each other questions, with conversations ranging from friendship and parenting to immortality and whether dogs are better than people. Author Steven Levitt begins Freakonomics by brushing over some of the stories, questions, and ideas he will cover in the rest of the book, such as the s crime drop, information asymmetry, real estate agents, correlation vs.

causation, and, most importantly, then on, each chapter centers on an unusual question. The first chapter's main message is about incentives. The most aggressively revised section of the book is the beginning of chapter 2, which tells the story of one man’s crusade against the Ku Klux Klan.

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Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and offer a.

New York Times Book Review. Freakonomics challenges conventional wisdom and makes for fun reading. Book Sense Picks and Notables.

One of the decade’s most intelligent and provocative books. The Daily Standard. A showcase for Levitt’s intriguing explorations into a number of disparate topics.

There’s plenty of fun to be had. 4/4(). LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Freakonomics, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.

When economists try to answer complex questions about the world, they often contradict the “conventional wisdom.” The phrase “conventional wisdom” was coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

Freakonomics Radio From WNYC. Podcast Directory. Society & Culture. From WNJP Radio - FM. Most Recent Episodes. Febru Can You Hear Me Now. Febru • When he became. The nonfiction publishing phenomenon known as Freakonomics has passed its sixth anniversary. The original book, which used ideas from statistics and economics to explore real-world problems, was an instant bestseller.

The book takes the form of six chapters. In each chapter, the authors analyze a different social issue from an economic perspective.

The first (and longest) chapter focuses on the role of incentives in human behavior. The authors argue that humans usually make decisions based on the incentives for.

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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. Freakonomics Review. Freakonomics is one of the best books on human psychology I’ve ever read. I also watched the movie and read its summary on Blinkist. So much to learn about making good decisions in here.

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Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the.

"Freakonomics," written with the help of the journalist Stephen J. Dubner, is an odd book. For one thing, it proudly boasts that it has no unifying theme. The best selling book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything written by Steven and Stephen J. Dubner was a revelation when it was written.

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Levitt, co-authored with Stephen J. was published in by William Morrow. Stringing together numerous stories, anecdotes, and data analyses of unusual phenomena, Freakonomics encourages readers to apply the tools and concepts of economics to occurrences in everyday life and think more.

Freakonomics is an interesting look at a wide variety of phenomenon, using the statistical analysis of economics to prove or disprove the conventional wisdom. I love this book because it puts facts and proof up against theories and feel-good answers/5().