Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics (eBook, ePUB)

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Here's a first-year book that encourages critical thinking and sparks discussion. Freakonomics addresses current social questions that students will enjoy arguing about both in the classroom and over coffee in the student union:

• Which is more dangerousa gun or a swimming? • Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers? • What makes a perfect parent?

These may not sound like typical questions an economist asks, but Levitt is not your typical economist. He studies the mysteries of everyday lifefrom cheating and crime to sports and child rearingand his conclusions regularly turn conventional wisdom on its head, helping students develop a critical eye to many things that are presented as fact. Freshman Common Read: Appalachian State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Louisville

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062132345
• Artikelnr.: 38008771

Autorenporträt

Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most influential American economist under forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.

Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning journalist and radio and TV personality, has worked for the New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio and Tell Me Something I Don't Know.