Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything"Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Hidden Side of Everything | 3 |
What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have | 19 |
How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group | 55 |
Copyright | |
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