史蒂芬·列維特,1994年在麻省理工大學取得經濟學博士學位。1997年進入芝加哥大學執教短短兩年時間列維特就成為芝加哥大學經濟學院終身教授。2002年列維特被選為美國科學院經濟學部委員。列維特還擔任《政治經濟學雜誌》(JPE)的編輯和《經濟學季刊》(OJE)的編輯。
史蒂芬·都伯納,《紐約時報》和《紐約客》長期撰稿人,著有暢銷書《騷動的靈魂》和《一個英雄崇拜者的自白》。
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
这本书曾经高居Amazon排行榜,而且,他从英文翻译成中文,也是速度比较快的。我在豆瓣的第一个好友Windrose早早就为此书写过一篇书评,感兴趣的可以去参考。 既然已经不是时髦阅读物,现在来补写书评,我就勉为其难的语出惊人一回。 很多推介这本书的人,都介绍到作者讲了6...
評分假设一个人被蛇咬了,然后死了,你会得出什么结论?不懂侦探术的普通人就下一个结论,他被蛇咬死了。不过对于犯罪实验室 的家伙们来说,需要有证据说明蛇是毒蛇,死者血液里有毒素,才能证明他被蛇咬死了。也就是说,要解剖尸体才知道真相。尸体,就是证据。会遇到多种情况,比...
評分昨天晚上开始读。因为昨晚没睡好,今天没精力做正事,下午索性把它读完,总共花了4小时的样子。 这本书是10年前的畅销书,在我书架上呆了也有七八年了。因为想找本易读又能启发思路的书才把它找了出来。 书总的来说还是很有趣。Levitt确实很有创造力,对常见的问题能够找到很...
評分 評分信息分類雜亂,效率低下,現在想來,聽瞭許久的podcast,記住並能夠應用的信息寥寥
评分還好瞭,就是那種勵誌電影還有友情的那種啊,小鹿好可愛
评分還好瞭,就是那種勵誌電影還有友情的那種啊,小鹿好可愛
评分shining at some points, which means "dull mostly"
评分好淺顯的道理們啊……
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