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 enlarge | Authors: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Rating:  1587 reviews
Sales Rank: 180
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised & Expand, Roughcut
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Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061234001
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780061234002
ASIN: 0061234001
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Plant City Girl is incorrect. April 14, 2005
19 out of 38 found this review helpful
If you perform a Google search of "Steve Sailer" and "Slate," you will find an e-mail exchange between the author and Mr. Sailer that took place on Slate in 1999. No such "debunking" took place, and in the end, his review was hardly "devastating."
Fascinating Freakonomics April 14, 2005
28 out of 32 found this review helpful
Freakonomics opened my mind to a whole new way of looking at the world. It was fascinating to see the synthesis between economics and our everyday lives. Levitt and Dubner have written a thoroughly engaging and surprisingly humorous read. They have made economics accessible to the non-economist and taught us to challenge "experts" and conventional wisdom. I highly recommend this one!
A fun, interesting, and provocative book. April 14, 2005
853 out of 1083 found this review helpful
While I'mnot generally inclined to read economics books, Freakonomics is very, very accessible. The book is written in clear, readily understandable language (including the best description I've ever seen of regression analysis, causality, and correlation). The topics discussed are quite interesting - why crime REALLY went down in the 90's, the impact parents can REALLY have on their kids, and several others. Whether one ultimately agrees with the authors' conclusions or not, the book certainly encourages you to think about everyday things more critically and not just accept the conventional wisdom.
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My only disappointment is that the book wasn't longer!
A Most Interesting Way To See The World April 14, 2005
32 out of 38 found this review helpful
The authors have written a most interesting book. The author, Steven D. Levitt, is an economist who studies the riddles and complexities of everyday life.
Our standards of morality and religious conviction determine how we would like the world to work. However, it is the economics in the world that determine how the world actually works. "Freakonomics" turns up the hidden side and secret aspects of almost anything in life whose economics determine the reality of the world in which we live.
The authors show that economics is the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when in competition with others who want or need the same things. They provide the readers with many interesting and fascinating topics to make their case that economics of all sorts (legal, illegal & even strange) determine the nature of the world in which we live. Complex ideas are presented in a straight-forward and enlightened way to the reader.
Though Provoking and Amusing April 13, 2005
55 out of 76 found this review helpful
This book brings a fresh and interesting methodology to examining the causes of social phenomena. The portions I have read so far are both thought provoking and amusing.
One of the many examples the author discusses a correlation between the legalization of abortion and a decreasing crime rate 20+ years later.
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Conservatives will probably appreciate another of the author's examples, the findings that selling crack on an inner city street corner pays far less than flipping burgers and is far more likely to get you killed than being a soldier in Iraq.
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