Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Think Like a Freak (eBook, ePUB)

The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner single-handedly showed the world that applying economic theory and big data to everyday problems can bear surprising results. Think Like A Freak will take students further inside their special thought process, revealing a new way of approaching the decisions we make, the plans we create, and the morals we choose. It answers the question on the lips of everyone who's read the previous books: How can I apply these ideas to my life? How do I make smarter, better decisions? How can I truly think like a freak? With short, highly entertaining insights running the gamut from "The Upside of Quitting" to "How to Succeed--With No Talent," Think Like A Freak will radically alter the way your students think about all aspects of life on this planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062218360
• Artikelnr.: 40878407

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.

Rezensionen

"Utterly captivating." - Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Blink, The Tipping Point, and David and Goliath

"Over nine entertaining chapters [Levitt and Dubner] demonstrate how not to fall into hackneyed approaches to solving problems and concretely illustrate how to reframe questions." - New York Daily News

"Compelling and fun." - New York Post

"This book will change your life." - Daily Express (London)

"Good ideas... expressed with panache." - Financial Times

"An interesting and thought-provoking read." - The Horn

"Their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally --- to think, that is, like a Freak." - Bookreporter.com