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Freakonomics: Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
from Ediciones B
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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un libro sin "tema unificador" 
el sr levitt escribe un libro en el que se pretende no tener un tema unificador, como prodría ser algún tópico de microeconomia o de calculo financiero. Pero el enfoque dado en el texto tiende a favorecer un analisis de diversas situaciones que ocurren en las sociedades desde el punto de vista de hechos verificables, a la luz de los datos confiables, y de un pensamiento no aprisionado bajo algún estereotipo fijado de antemano sino aquel de refutar las creencias populares... more info
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Not the sum of its parts 
Let me preface this by saying how psyched I was to read this. Copies at the library were perpetually checked out so when I finally planned ahead and got it on hold I had some anticipation going. This wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't the sum of it's parts.
Each chapter goes into an interesting article on some topic. The best of these for me was the analysis of race and trends in baby names. Something like a third of black babies in California have a name that no other baby in the state has. White babies... more info
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Excellent read - Inspired thinking
The basic premise of this book is that statistical analysis in the service of micro-economics can be used to illuminate how people actually behave. (This is distinct from the related question of how people ought to be behave, which properly belongs in the realm of ethics or, more dubiously, religion and politics.) In a world that is increasingly divided into murderous factions fueled by absurd beliefs based on centuries-old "wisdom", this book is a breath of fresh air, and its empirical approach to everyday... more info
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Bla Bla the moon is in Uranus 
Uhm, the decision in Roe v. Wade did not hold that abortion was legal, but that it was a fundamental right under the constitution thus states could not make it illegal. Abortion was legal in many states [maybe most] before Roe. Roe challenged her state's law prohibiting abortion on constitutional grounds. Seems this author is confusing correlation with causation. Maybe this author would hold the Eugenics movement also as socially beneficial [by socially I mean the conservative whitey, and by beneficial I... more info
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