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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing—and whose conclusions turn conventional wisdom on its head. 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. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics , they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. 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.
作者简介
史蒂芬·列维特，1994年在麻省理工大学取得经济学博士学位。1997年进入芝加哥大学执教短短两年时间列维特就成为芝加哥大学经济学院终身教授。2002年列维特被选为美国科学院经济学部委员。列维特还担任《政治经济学杂志》（JPE）的编辑和《经济学季刊》（OJE）的编辑。
史蒂芬·都伯纳，《纽约时报》和《纽约客》长期撰稿人，著有畅销书《骚动的灵魂》和《一个英雄崇拜者的自白》。
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评分用晚上三个小时的时间，看完了现在比较流行的一本书Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everthing (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, 2006)的中译本（刘祥亚译，广东经济出版社）。 其实很早自己就有了这本书的英文原版，看了一半，觉得很好玩，所...
评分魔由心生 人的动机决定了人的选择。 几年前，一个很久以前辞职的同事找到我，商量大家一起创业。刚好他手上有一笔业务，做完后，可用做启动的资金。开始大家都构想得很好，项目进展得很顺利，客户的款也付得爽快。终于有时间大家坐下来，讨论一些关于新公司的问题...
评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...
评分正在看这本书，名字就很有点儿哗众取宠。 第1章第1页就碰到这么一句话：“从根本上来说，经济学就是研究人的动机”，看的一头雾水：经济学观察并解释人的行为，即使算上应用了基本心理学观点的行为经济学，啥时候经济学从根本上就是研究人的动机了？看到第2页所谓的具体动机，...
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