Freakonomics (English, Paperback, Levitt Steven D.)
Freakonomics (English, Paperback, Levitt Steven D.)
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre: Business & Economics
- ISBN: 9780141019017, 0141019018
- Pages: 336
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An economist with an eye for wit and almost everything else gives his opinion on various things: resulting in Freakonomics, a book on getting what you want.
Summary of the Book
What’s more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Did you think it was a gun? Well, statistics proves you wrong. Did you know that schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have something in common? Or that there is a reason why drug dealers still live with their mothers? Steven D. Levitt makes a living by looking at numbers. Numbers make no sense to laymen, but when he first revealed his ideas on the relationship between abortion and the drop in crime rates, people began to take notice. Numbers can predict many things, and when read right they can also explain many others. Stephen Dubner teams up with Steven D. Levitt to jump head first into the intimidating sea of numbers. Readers can rest assured though, the things that they drag out of this abyss is sure to shock and inspire awe. So dive in with them if you’re interested in knowing how much one’s upbringing really matters or how real estate agents and members of the Ku Klux Klan are similar. A word of caution however, the answers Levitt and Dubner give you will definitely shock you.
About the Authors
Steven D. Levitt is an American economist. He is best known for his views on the relationship between legalized abortion and the drop in crime rates.
Levitt received his PhD. in economics from MIT. He is currently the William D. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the Director of the Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago.
Stephen J. Dubner is an American journalist.
Levitt and Dubner have also co-written SuperFreakonomics and Think Like A Freak.
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A brilliantly flawed piece of work
This book is perhaps more accurately described to be at the borderline between fiction and non-fiction...
Saransh Srivastava
Nov, 2015
One of the most rare kind of books
This books covers topics like cheating among the sumo wrestlers, information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents,the economics of drug dealin...
Rajat Kumar Panda
Nov, 2014
A brief overview of Freakonomics
This book has unearthed similar trends in different aspects of American Society and the International society ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to the Sumo wrest...
Arnab Ghosh
Nov, 2014
Entertaining!
All and all its a very entertaining book. Go for it guys!
Shubham
Certified Buyer, Bangalore
Mar, 2016
Surprisingly interesting.
Dubner has implemented it well, as for Levitt, well the guy is kind of a genius.
P.S. I read this in less than a day.
Flipkart Customer
Certified Buyer
Dec, 2013
Awesome Book
I have finished the book and now will start reading Super Freakonomics. Amazong book and the delivery by Flipkart is just awesome.
Tarun Sahni
Certified Buyer, Hyderabad
Jul, 2015
A good read
Satyam Bhuyan
Certified Buyer, Guwahati
May, 2015
A very sane experience with a really rogue book!
Now, The Book!
Well, long story short, this is basically a book with a lot of weird case studies, their explanation from an "economic" point of view. The authors are witty, the book is well composed, the narration is fluid. I have to admit, this is one of the best non fiction I've read in my life. Book is highly recommended for those who are into business related non-fictions.
Somnath Chakraborty
Certified Buyer, Kolkata
Mar, 2015
Freakonomics
In the eight years since its publication, the book has spawned a sequel External link and even a documentary External link. Eight years might seem to be a long shelf life for a book about statistics, particularly one ...
Abhimanyu Jain Asati
Nov, 2014
A brave attempt to demystify economics
especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of each and everything that could be discussed elaborately.
If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It will literally redefine the way a man views the
moder...
Ajay Singh
Nov, 2014
