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S'està carregant… Freakonomics (Revised Edition) (2005 original; edició 2006)de Steven D Levitt (Autor), Stephen J. Dubner (Autor)
Informació de l'obraFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything de Steven D. Levitt (2005)
  
Books Read in 2016 (1,199) Unread books (249) » 16 més Top Five Books of 2019 (299) Books Read in 2019 (2,864) Books Read in 2018 (3,614) 2014 (4) 2000s decade (87) To Read List (1) Unshelved Book Clubs (88) Libertarian Books (93) LT picks: Blue Books (189) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I don't really know what I expected but whatever it was, this book didnt match. Its a great book and has some very interesting anecdotes. Key takeaway is that it is ok to challenge conventional wisdom and think about what is really going on. (  ) CptGoldfish | May 8, 2022 |  I think I picked this up (figuratively) because the description said abortion drastically lowered the crime rate, and I love me some abortion. Mmmm mm. Written in easy-on-the-eyes, conversational English, the pages just fly by. It's cute. But it's somewhat repetitive, and then the entire second half is a bunch of essays retelling (or pretelling*) the first half! * They were written first, and the book was based on them. What were you thinking, Steves? brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 | It wasn't quite the book I'd hoped, but I did enjoy it. (  ) Wren73 | Mar 4, 2022 | I waited for three months to get my hands on this book and was somewhat disappointed. The author has a way of looking for answers for some uncomfortable and unconventional questions. He asks questions about drug dealers ... and attributes to the drop in crime (since the 1960's and 1970's) to the legalization of abortion. Stephen Dubner makes some interesting ideas .... and he would be someone I would like to converse with on a plane. I do hope he pursuses another book because he may be on to something (  ) wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 | Somewhat interesting but overall meh ( ) Alexandro69 | Feb 12, 2022 |
 Economists can seem a little arrogant at times. They have a set of techniques and habits of thought that they regard as more ''rigorous'' than those of other social scientists. When they are successful -- one thinks of Amartya Sen's important work on the causes of famines, or Gary Becker's theory of marriage and rational behavior -- the result gets called economics. It might appear presumptuous of Steven Levitt to see himself as an all-purpose intellectual detective, fit to take on whatever puzzle of human behavior grabs his fancy. But on the evidence of ''Freakonomics,'' the presumption is earned. The book, unfortunately titled Freakonomics, is broken into six chapters, each posing a different social question. Levitt and Dubner answer them using empirical research and statistical analysis. And unlike academics who usually address these matters, they don't clutter the prose with a lot of caveats. They just show you the goods.  Freakonomics is about unconventional wisdom, using the raw data of economics in imaginative ways to ask clever and diverting questions. Levitt even redefines his definition. If, as he says, economics is essentially about incentives and how people realise them, then economics is a prospecting tool, not a laboratory microscope. Pertany a aquestes sèriesFreakonomics (1) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsPenguin Celebrations (33) Contingut aTé la seqüela (sense pertànyer a cap sèrie)Ha inspiratTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
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? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask--but Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life--from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing--and his conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. The authors 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 this book, they set out to explore the hidden side of everything. If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work.--From publisher description. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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