Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. HarperCollins, 2005.
A brief summary of Freakonomics
An enlightening, scientific study that uses an economist’s data to uncover the incentives that drive human behaviors, asking unlikely questions to reveal even more unlikely answers.
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Who should read Freakonomics
Students • economists • sociologists • teachers • parents • people interested in social dynamics
About the author of Freakonomics
Steven Levitt is a professor of economics who teaches at the University of Chicago. Stephen Dubner is an author and journalist who writes for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time magazine. The two authors have also written SuperFreakonomics, When to Rob a Bank, and Think Like A Freak.
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