4.1
Economie & Zakelijk
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics. 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 secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking.
Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
© 2005 HarperCollins Publishers (Luisterboek): 9780060842963
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 12 april 2005
4.1
Economie & Zakelijk
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics. 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 secrets of the Ku Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking.
Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
© 2005 HarperCollins Publishers (Luisterboek): 9780060842963
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 12 april 2005
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Maud
10 nov 2023
A collection of NYT columns adapted to book form. I simply love the podcast and the Freakonomics MD version also. Not every topic is a interesting as some others, but all in all it makes you want to ask questions and crunch numbers with them.
Rick
29 jan 2022
No story line, reader wasn’t my favourite and the points were made in a slowest
Dario
28 dec 2022
Interesting facts!
Veroniek
6 apr 2020
Loved the book
Piotr
9 mei 2022
A long time fan of Frekonomics podcast finally got to listen to the book which has kickstarted an entire enterprise.Sheds plenty of light on thing that I thought were well understood, and built was I wrong. An absolute must if you understanding the the world is what you strive for!
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