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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : William Morrow, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 242 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 006073132X
  • 9780060731328
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 22
LOC classification:
  • HB74.P8 L479 2005
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? -- Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.
Review: "Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. 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 set out to 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 Ku Klux Klan."--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? -- Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.

"Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. 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 set out to 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 Ku Klux Klan."--BOOK JACKET.

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