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Format: Hardcover, Publisher: Harpercollins (October 01, 2006), ISBN: 0061234001 Format: Hardcover, Publisher: Harpercollins (October 01, 2006), ISBN: 0061234001

Pages: 336, Edition: Revised & Expand, Roughcut, Hardcover, William Morrow

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Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything [Revised and Expanded] Synopsis: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a...

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Format: Hardcover, Publisher: Harpercollins (October 01, 2006), ISBN: 0061234001 Format: Hardcover, Publisher: Harpercollins (October 01, 2006), ISBN: 0061234001

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And what this is is like it is not about Economics but what it is about? It is really the hid inside the secret thing of everything how the world really works basically and we are looking at the world as you know we look at as we are supposed to be good or you know it is a badness of place. But this is how the world really works the incentives of people what people really out for just people's agendas are really why everything dies why everything works with us. That is what this book is about. I mean in here I mean it says the best is just it represents the way the world really works and what people really want out of things. So Freakonomics studies it is not about economics. It is called Freakonomics because its studies like I guess economics in a way in a freaky way I mean this whole different way I mean nobody ever thought it's got a lot of praise on here from New York Times Wall Street Journal. It was the New York Times Best Seller. I would recommend the book I mean it is not my favorite out there but it does give some very good it points out some very good issues on things things you never really think of secret things about people. I mean things you really never knew think it like I mean I can only think of one right now. But I would recommend the book if you are interested anything like that if you are interested in learning the secret motivation or agendas of certain organizations of people. The book is on 300 pages long. No pictures on this one. It is a novel. It's a hard covered book. Like I said it is not my favorite but it is worthily checking out to be in and that stuff. I mean pick ups in the library first and see if you like it. I mean if you do like it I would recommend buying it because it is one you could keep looking back at to bring up in conversations and stuff. So it is can be on $15.00 to $20.00. Like I said it is hard covered. Pick it up at any bookstore or order online for that price. I'd say you see in the library first see if you like it and then buy it. If you do like it a lot I recommend buying it. You obviously probably will buy it but other than that check it out. I highly recommend the book.

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are...

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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine , which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics , however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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