STEVEN D.LEVITT – FREAKONOMICS

In the summer of 2003 The New York Times Magazine. Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, was sent to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. He wasn’t interested in the things that interest most economists. He studied the mysteries of everyday life-from cheating to crime to child rearing-and his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head.

Dubner and Levitt collaborated. It’s called freakonomics. The book gives full play to Levitt’s most compelling ideas. It reminds us that economics is the study of incentives, how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers when they make so much money? What makes a good parent? What do teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? They both cheat.

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Steven D.Levitt is the author of Freakonomics.