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
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...
評分看教育技术的趋势,去看纽约时报的畅销书排行榜最好。果然,今年的Blackboard(含被兼并的WebCT)用户会议上,主旨发言者是《魔鬼经济学》(Freakonomics)作者之一芝加哥大学经济教授Steven D. Levitt。我不是很肯定他的话题和远程教育有何相关,只是其生猛程度,和三闾大学欢...
評分周末,天一直闷着,阴阴的,周六下了一夜的雨。这样的天气躲在家中偷看《魔鬼经济学》 是再惬意不过了。 需要承认,人们很容易从别人的议论中得到暗示,这样,在评价一件事物之前,内心会有些倾向性,但往往这是偏见。这次也不例外,我同时订阅了《弗里德曼的生活经济学》和...
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...
interesting read. mind opening, yet could be better...I sort of got 80% of the points in the first chapter and then had to read the whole thing just to do it again, with more detailed stories added.
评分很有趣,更應該算是一本社會學讀物。
评分這書相當具有娛樂性啊!
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offers very interesting perspectives to understand the wisdom that everyone believes in
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