Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Softcover

Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J.

 
9780141030081: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141030089 ISBN 13: 9780141030081
Verlag: Penguin Books, 2030

Inhaltsangabe

How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?

The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And we can use it to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life.

This cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life’s secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven D. Levitt (Author)
Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark medal, given to the most influential American economist under the age of forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.

Stephen J. Dubner (Author)
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career - as an almost-rock-star - to become a writer. He has worked for The New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He lives with his family in New York City.

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How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And we can use it to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life. This cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life’s secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.

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In which the book's central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how
people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does
work.

Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong...How "experts"-from
criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists-bend the facts...Why
knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding
modern life...

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Verlag
Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2030
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141030089
ISBN 13 
9780141030081
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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