Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
"Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. 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 set out to explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inne...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
William Morrow,
[2005]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the hidden side of everything
- 1. What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
- 2. How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?
- 3. Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
- 4. Where have all the criminals gone?
- 5. What makes a perfect parent?
- 6. Perfect parenting, Part II; or : would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet?
- Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.