Freakonomics

"Freakonomics" af Steven D. Levitt er en underholdende og tankevækkende afsløring af livets vildeste hemmeligheder. Hvordan kan dit navn påvirke, hvor godt et liv du får? Hvad har ejendomsmæglere med Ku Klux Klan tilfælles? Hvorfor bor narkohandlere hos deres mødre? Og hvad er svaret på disse mærkværdige spørgsmål kort fortalt? Freakonomics. Det er i alt hvad vi gør! Fra sex til forbrydelser, politik, angst og trafikpropper. Steven D. Levitt har med "Freakonomics" skrevet en sand kultklassiker, som viser nogle af livets mærkeligste og mest overraskende sammenhænge. Efter endt læsning vil du se verden på en helt anden vis.

"Freakonomics" af Steven D. Levitt er en underholdende og tankevækkende afsløring af livets vildeste hemmeligheder. Hvordan kan dit navn påvirke, hvor godt et liv du får? Hvad har ejendomsmæglere med Ku Klux Klan tilfælles? Hvorfor bor narkohandlere hos deres mødre? Og hvad er svaret på disse mærkværdige spørgsmål kort fortalt? Freakonomics. Det er i alt hvad vi gør! Fra sex til forbrydelser, politik, angst og trafikpropper. Steven D. Levitt har med "Freakonomics" skrevet en sand kultklassiker, som viser nogle af livets mærkeligste og mest overraskende sammenhænge. Efter endt læsning vil du se verden på en helt anden vis.

In the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday life - from cheating to crime to child-rearing - and his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years earlier. (Unwanted children have a greater likelihood of becoming criminals; with so many unwanted children being aborted in the 1970s, the pool of potential criminals had significantly shrunk by the 1990s.) The Times article yielded an unprecedented response, a deluge of interest from thousands of curious, inspired, and occasionally distraught readers. Levitt and Dubner collaborated on a book that gives full play to Levitt's most compelling ideas. Through forceful storytelling and pungent insight. FREAKONOMICS reminds us all that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesùhow people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Among the questions it answers: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? What makes a perfect parent? And, of course: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? (Answer: they both cheat.)"

In the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday life - from cheating to crime to child-rearing - and his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years earlier. (Unwanted children have a greater likelihood of becoming criminals; with so many unwanted children being aborted in the 1970s, the pool of potential criminals had significantly shrunk by the 1990s.) The Times article yielded an unprecedented response, a deluge of interest from thousands of curious, inspired, and occasionally distraught readers. Levitt and Dubner collaborated on a book that gives full play to Levitt's most compelling ideas. Through forceful storytelling and pungent insight. FREAKONOMICS reminds us all that economics is, at root, the study of incentivesùhow people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Among the questions it answers: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? What makes a perfect parent? And, of course: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? (Answer: they both cheat.)"

'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph 'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell WITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATION Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics , Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens. 'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal

'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph 'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell WITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATION Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics , Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens. 'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal