Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
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Freakonomics opens a door that's hard to close: once you start seeing the world through Levitt and Dubner's incentive-driven lens, ordinary assumptions begin to crack. The book's central pleasure is its audacity — connecting sumo wrestlers to schoolteachers, crack dealers to corporate hierarchies, and crime rates to abortion policy with gleeful, rigorous logic. The prose is breezy without being shallow, and the structure rewards curiosity over expertise. It works best as provocation rather than prescription, and those comfortable sitting with uncomfortable conclusions will find it electrifying.
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There's a particular kind of delight I feel when a book teaches me to distrust my own assumptions, and Freakonomics delivers that sensation on nearly every page — Levitt and Dubner have a gift for making the familiar suddenly strange, like turning a snow globe upside down and watching everything you thought was settled begin to swirl. The prose is breezy and conspiratorial, as if the authors are leaning across a table and sharing secrets they probably shouldn't. What lingers isn't any single revelation but a new habit of mind — a restless, slightly mischievous urge to ask what's really driving the thing in front of you.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Campus
- Published
- January 1, 2005
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
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