4.1
Ekonomi & Business
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 (Ljudbok): 9780060842963
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 april 2005
4.1
Ekonomi & Business
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 (Ljudbok): 9780060842963
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 12 april 2005
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X
15 mars 2022
The part about names became quite redundant and repetitive quickly. Otherwise a great book
Amir
18 dec. 2022
Det var väldigt givande att lyssna på den här boken. Har du interessen i data och hur samhället fungerar, då ska ni utnytta av den här boken.
Niklas
21 maj 2023
Är lite presumtiv mellanåt. Men fokus bör ligga på bakomliggande metodik och inte värdena de jämför.
Linnéa
6 apr. 2021
Underhållande. Använder statistik och nationalekonomi för att vrida och vända på företeelser i samhället.
Micke
30 aug. 2021
funny and entertaining plus for reader
farmor
4 feb. 2017
great!!!
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