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Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems.
The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you'll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they're from Nigeria. Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing—and so much fun to read.
It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. Why do dealers live with their parents? How can information be used to dismantle a terrorist group? By answering these unusual questions, the authors of "Freakonomics" bring to the forefront the little-known workings of the economy. They are the inventors of the eponymous science of exploring societal issues using the tools of economics.
You will learn how the tools of economics can be exploited to answer unusual and interesting questions. SuperFreakonomics Author : Steven D. The study of economics can be wilder than you think. Have you ever wondered why we make the money mistakes that we do? With such a wealth of financial advice available, it seems stunning that we could make such bad investments or foolhardy purchases.
Freakonomics uses the principles of economic analysis to unpack this concept for us and explain why we make the choices we do. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.
Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Take a master class in incentives—because for better or worse, incentives rule our world. Levitt and Stephen J. Freakonomics: Scholarship in the service of storytelling. American Law and Economics Review — Dubner, S.
New York: William Morrow. A Review of Freakonomics John DiNardo 2 Popular Popularizations I had the good fortune to be raised by parents with not a lot of formal schooling, but a great deal.
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