具体描述
In the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. More...
Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday lifefrom cheating to crime to child-rearingand his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years earlier. (Unwanted children have a greater likelihood of becoming criminals; with so many unwanted children being aborted in the 1970s, the pool of potential criminals had significantly shrunk by the 1990s.) The Times article yielded an unprecedented response, a deluge of interest from thousands of curious, inspired, and occasionally distraught readers. Levitt and Dubner collaborated on a book that gives full play to Levitts most compelling ideas. Through forceful storytelling and pungent insight. FREAKONOMICS reminds us all that economics is, at root, the study of incentiveshow people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Among the questions it answers: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? What makes a perfect parent? And, of course: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? (Answer: they both cheat.)
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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上大学的时候，某女问我，发现没有，成绩好的那帮人名字都很生僻。我努力想了下，说，还好吧，反正某某某不见得优秀。伊不甘心的说，那她家世一定不错。我一愣怔。伊猜的果然对。 《魔鬼经济学》中提问：名字对孩子的未来有影响么？书中本着美国人不见数据不说话的原则...
评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...
评分地铁上断断续续把这本书翻完，倒是用了好久的时间。 这书也确实适合这样看，本来章节之间就毫无逻辑可言，玩转的是思维的那灵光一闪，实际说出真相的时候，后续的推理自己就也能完成了。 之前的过多评论都有点过了，好似看完后便开挂一样，经济学的学习模式有了颠覆性影响。 ...
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，...
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...
用户评价
看了，英文版。的确通俗，的确有趣。不过实在是太不靠谱，请问每一个chapter的主题是什么？随便抓两个东西就开始扯。。的确是一种新颖的思维方式，可是关经济什么事？还是我对这本书期望值太高了？
评分"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work — whereas economics represents how it actually does work."
评分专业名词不多，内容比较轻松
评分浅显的语言, 很耐看
评分My friends told me that there are lots of dataset included in this book. Controversial but fun.
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