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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Average customer rating:  Country: United KingdomFormat: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTDISBN: 9780141019017
Publication date: April 2006
Length: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 19mm
Weight: 251g
Edition: New title
Pages: 336
Prizes: Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2005)
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Stephen J. Dubner; Steven D. Levitt
Was R150.00
Now R120.00
Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.
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Fun TriviaReviewed by Cindy McGeer from Gauteng, South Africa on 20 October 2009
12 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
There are some very thought pro@#$ing ideas presented here and you don't have to agree with them to find "Freakonomics" valuable. Steven Levitt presents some interesting facts that will make you want to research further. Reading his take on the public school system was validating. Seeing first hand how standardized testing preparation has been substituted for a real education and then reading how all it really does is encourage cheating was powerfully illuminating. The abortion statistics and the ridiculous baby naming trends offered valuable insight.
I see this as a primer on sociology more than economics but it does show how it is all related. I will pass this one around because I think it is an important read. Maybe not for all the information included but for how it opens your mind and makes you want to look further. I enjoyed "Freakonomics" and recommend it.
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