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.)
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》。
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評分读完了《魔鬼经济学》。虽说相对于它的名声,确给人盛名之下,其实难符之感,不过我还是认为,至少它是部值得一读的书。“从根本上改变你看待这个世界的方式”,牛皮吹得大了些,但“揭示隐藏在表象之下的真实世界”,却是基本上名符其实的。 首先,我并没有将它作为一部纯正...
評分上大学的时候,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...
評分读完了《魔鬼经济学》。虽说相对于它的名声,确给人盛名之下,其实难符之感,不过我还是认为,至少它是部值得一读的书。“从根本上改变你看待这个世界的方式”,牛皮吹得大了些,但“揭示隐藏在表象之下的真实世界”,却是基本上名符其实的。 首先,我并没有将它作为一部纯正...
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...
"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work — whereas economics represents how it actually does work."
评分淺顯的語言, 很耐看
评分看瞭,英文版。的確通俗,的確有趣。不過實在是太不靠譜,請問每一個chapter的主題是什麼?隨便抓兩個東西就開始扯。。的確是一種新穎的思維方式,可是關經濟什麼事?還是我對這本書期望值太高瞭?
评分看瞭,英文版。的確通俗,的確有趣。不過實在是太不靠譜,請問每一個chapter的主題是什麼?隨便抓兩個東西就開始扯。。的確是一種新穎的思維方式,可是關經濟什麼事?還是我對這本書期望值太高瞭?
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