具体描述
Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. 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 fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
作者简介
史蒂芬·列维特，1994年在麻省理工大学取得经济学博士学位。1997年进入芝加哥大学执教短短两年时间列维特就成为芝加哥大学经济学院终身教授。2002年列维特被选为美国科学院经济学部委员。列维特还担任《政治经济学杂志》（JPE）的编辑和《经济学季刊》（OJE）的编辑。
史蒂芬·都伯纳，《纽约时报》和《纽约客》长期撰稿人，著有畅销书《骚动的灵魂》和《一个英雄崇拜者的自白》。
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昨天晚上开始读。因为昨晚没睡好，今天没精力做正事，下午索性把它读完，总共花了4小时的样子。 这本书是10年前的畅销书，在我书架上呆了也有七八年了。因为想找本易读又能启发思路的书才把它找了出来。 书总的来说还是很有趣。Levitt确实很有创造力，对常见的问题能够找到很...
评分非常推荐这本书， 最近利用在地铁以及厕所时间在读. 读这本书的过程是极其愉快的，总可以打破自己很多习以为常，默认的观念，这本书让我想起来了另外一本书 ，outliers，都是在对我们很多习惯的观念进行分析与思考，结果是会让我们发现，实际上多少约定俗成的观念实际上是错...
评分用晚上三个小时的时间，看完了现在比较流行的一本书Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everthing (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, 2006)的中译本（刘祥亚译，广东经济出版社）。 其实很早自己就有了这本书的英文原版，看了一半，觉得很好玩，所...
评分昨天晚上开始读。因为昨晚没睡好，今天没精力做正事，下午索性把它读完，总共花了4小时的样子。 这本书是10年前的畅销书，在我书架上呆了也有七八年了。因为想找本易读又能启发思路的书才把它找了出来。 书总的来说还是很有趣。Levitt确实很有创造力，对常见的问题能够找到很...
评分经济学是个非常骗人的东西。 如果你是经济学科班，大学里第一门专业课应该是经济学原理，你发现这门课里充满了简单有趣却对你思维产生革命意义的天才智慧，于是你对你将来的学习充满了憧憬和希望。 可是快乐的时光总是短暂的，在这第一门专业课结束之后，你突然发现好日子走到...
用户评价
interesting read. mind opening, yet could be better...I sort of got 80% of the points in the first chapter and then had to read the whole thing just to do it again, with more detailed stories added.
评分interesting read. mind opening, yet could be better...I sort of got 80% of the points in the first chapter and then had to read the whole thing just to do it again, with more detailed stories added.
评分大部分是2005年左右的文章，现在读来觉得有些过时。
评分为了经济课读了读，权当好玩了。......
评分所以講…經濟學家的副業很多：折學家，舌會學家，心離學家，統雞學家，黍學家，坐家，撒謊家…其實吾覺得有點基礎來看看，再分析分析還是蠻有意思的；沒的入門也不錯…一看，果然是芝加哥經濟學派呀……昂～
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