Freakonomics – A. Dawn Journal Book Review
Recently, I wrote an article about Freakonomics and mentioned that I would write a short review on Freakonomics. Today, I am going to jot down my thoughts briefly on this book. As you may have noticed, my book reviews consist of both recently published and not-so-recently published books, [...]
I believe a book can never be considered old or out of date—a book is a book. You will often find me reviewing books on A Dawn Journal which are not so recently published. The reason for this is that I usually buy books when they are on sale.
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an [...]
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything# Author:Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner# Format:PDF 2.3MB# Page Count: 242 pages# Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (April 12, 2005)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 006073132X# ISBN-13: 978-0060731328Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life-;from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing-;and whose conclusions r
I recently had the pleasure of listening to the author of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, speak at York University. In his book, Freakonomics, has talks about the power of information and those who attempt to keep it from the public in order to exploit it for their own gain. He raises some interesting points about real [...]
Mann to Ambush Depp Outside the Biograph: Michael Mann and Johnny Depp have agreed to film “Public Enemies”. It’ll be a Chicago-based film about Depression-era gangsters set in 1933 to 1934.Depp will play John Dillinger, according to Variety. The film is slated to start shooting in Chicago on March 10, 2008.Michael Mann.Photo credit: IMDbMann wrote the script based on the book by Bryan Burroughs. Depp recently backed out of Mira Nair’s “Shantaram” due to WGA strike-related script problems.Since 2006’s “Miami Vice,” Mann has been jumping on and off abandoned projects. “Public Enemies” sounds close in tone and period to an untitled Hollywood noir written by John Logan that stars Leonardo DiCaprio. That project fell through due to a budget climbing in excess of $100 million.Mann also was attached to “Empire” – a media-mogul drama again written by Logan (which its proposed star, Will Smith, recently compared to “Richard III”) – along with a former Martin
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Prosper Days 2008 is Prosper's lender conference happening in late February (yes, in 2008). Prosper Shira just made a quick posting to the forums that Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner will be doing Tuesday's keynote speech.
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Dubner, co-Author of Freakonomics, will be our
With Freakonomics, economist Steven Levitt and NY Times writer Stephen Dubner have accomplished something that I have long thought impossible: writing a book based on economics that is fun to read. But, of course, that may be because the book is relatively light on economic theory and could be more properly called a sociology book except for the authors' main point that life revolves around "self-interest."Most of us, if we wonder at all about the trends and behavior that we see around us, rely on "conventional wisdom" to explain why things happen as they do. Levitt points out that, not too shockingly, conventional wisdom is often wrong and that it should always be questioned before being accepted as fact. Along the way he provides the data to back up and prove his case concerning several interesting questions about which he believes that conventional wisdom has drawn the wrong conclusions. Some of Levitt's assertions are not politically correct ones to speak out loud and his wor
It’s been six months, and it’s still next to impossible to find a Wii anywhere. Freakonomics looks at the issue and makes some interesting points. They point out that this is really bad for game publishers, but really not all that bad for stores, as it gets people in the door looking for Wiis. Read on…
Via: Gizmodo.com
Freakonomics is by far one of the best non-religious books I have read of late. It was a Valentine’s Day gift from Leslie and it took me a month to get through it, but I enjoyed it. I give it a 9 out of 10 on the Mclaren Book Scale. As the book itself says:
The most likely result of having read this book is a simple one: you may find yourself asking a lot of questions. Many of them will lead to nothing. But some will profuce answers that are interesting even surprising. Consider the question posed at the beginning of this book’s penultimate chapter: how much do parents really matter?
That probably best sums up the way you will feel after having read the book. Steven Levitt is described as a rouge economist that looks for correlations in the most obscure places. He seems to be a kind of detective that is looking to expose correlations that need to be changed. He is a gumshoe that makes his way to solving the cases of: falling crime rates, cheating in sumo wrestling, teacher
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Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist
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Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side of everything, from violent crime, parenting, and baby names to the Ku Klux Klan and real estate, demonstrating how economics isn't just about numbers, but a study of
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We ThinkThe good news behind our mindless eating, Do you hate Brussels sprouts because your mother did" Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel" Why do you actually overeat at healthy restaurants""You can ask your smartest friend why he or she just ate what they ate, and you won't get an answer any deeper than, 'It sounded good,'" says Brian Wansink, Ph.D.), author of "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think," and Professor and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.Dubbed the "Freakonomics of food" by the Canadian Broadcasting Commission, Mindless Eating, uses hidden cameras, two-way mirrors, and hundreds of studies to show why we eat what and how much we eat. "The unique thing about his work is that it cleverly answers everyday questions about food and shows translates them into Good News - how we can improve it," said Seth Roberts, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of California at Berkeley.Take h
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Tagline: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
I had completed reading Freakonomics over a month ago and was pretty much glued to it then. However, now that I have decided to pick up The world is flat and a few Malcolm Gladwell's books, I thought that I should finish this book's review so that I do not mix things up.
About the authors
I am not an avid
