Customer Review: For most people the notion economics is dull and that economists are concerned only with finance itself. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more... more info
Customer Review: Freakonomics challenges our presumptions and beliefs about things. The book covers incentives - the incentives to pick your child up from daycare to a teacher's incentive to cheat or a criminals incentive to commit crime. Various truths that we hold dear are challenged. Media and so called "experts"... more info
Customer Review: 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... more info
Customer Review: Dubner's highly interesting family history frames the tale of his own decision to "return home" to his Jewish roots, after his parents, both raised as traditional Jews, converted to Roman Catholicism in their unmarried days. His parents bring up Stephen Dubner and his siblings as deeply-devout... more info
Customer Review: Peter and Scott have created a thing of beauty. I am an atheist. I was an atheist before I read this book and I remain an atheist after. But this book is not about religion. It is about love, beauty, faith, parenthood, friendship, bird watching, death, sex, smoky lentils... life. It is beautifully... more info
Customer Review: Like many others, I found the chapter of Freakonomics based on Venkatesh's data on drug dealing to be the most compelling of the book. So I looked forward to picking up this extended account of his journey into the murky world of Chicago public housing and the research he did there from 1989-95. His... more info
Customer Review: I was a little predisposed to enjoying this book for a number of reasons, and I think I should describe them before getting too much into the review. I am nearly the same age as the author, lost my Dad in 1974 and am a lifelong Steelers fan, who grew up well outside Pittsburgh, but followed the... more info
Customer Review: I found the book via illustrator Christoph Niemann's site, and watched the excellent video version. I love it enough that I'll buy it for myself, and probably as a gift for other little kids in my life. Also a big fan of Freakonomics, and LOVE the Spielberg shout-out.
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