Economics : Why Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Mothers

For my summer reading assignment, I read, explored and analyzed the book, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I chose this book because psychology and economics have always interested me, and this book specifically looked at the psychological aspect of our economy. I thought it would be an interesting experience to read it. I decided to take AP World History because during my 8th grade year, social studies really started to interest me. My teacher, Mr. Mark Matthews, really made

take you through some of the highlights of my favorite chapters and some of the more important chapters as well. The interesting thing about the book as a whole is that it does not even seem like you are reading a book that is trying to teach you economics through some outrageous situations. Another intriguing thing about this book is that these authors have such an extensive knowledge of studies that they can pull from any study, even if it has nothing to do with what they are talking about, and they

There are people who are criticizing why marijuana should not be legalized and why it’s dangerous to health. According to the research performed by Harvard University, “kids who used marijuana only recreationally showed significant abnormalities in the brain” (1). In a related study from the University Of Maryland School, Of Medicine found that “Regular marijuana use during adolescence, but not adulthood, may permanently impair cognition and increase the risk for psychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia

possibilities of why some things are the way they are. Principles of everyday life are examined and explained while Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner search for logic in statistical economics. This book answers the questions: how can things affect what people do, why are things the way they are, and why experts routinely make up statistics. This book highlights the commonalities between schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers as well as the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents, the life of drug dealers, criminals

to their dedication and the severity of the possible consequences. Incentives are a huge part of economics. Schoolteachers actually cheat for their students for various incentives such as a promotion, or even a raise in pay. This not

people to do more of a good thing, and less of a bad thing (17).” However, incentives are sometimes able to influence an individual into doing the wrong thing, in order to obtain the incentive. The book states that the top three incentives are: “economic, social and morals (17).” These incentives cause people to sometimes preform a wrong action, in order to obtain any of these incentives. The authors used the statistics of the school teacher in Chicago to show an example of how people can be influenced

common? Surprisingly, economics. Steven D. Levitt, an award-winning University of Chicago economist with an unconventional view of the world, and his co-author Stephen J. Dubner, an intrepid author and reporter, set out to find the bizarre correlations between world events using economics in their 2005 New York Times Bestseller Freakanomics: Exploring the Hidden Side of Everything. Freakanomics is at times controversial and some of the information could be outdated yet it is still highly entertaining

thoughtful and provocative analysis of human motivation and modern living. It shows you a common world through a totally different pair of lens. The author uses the raw data of economics to ask imaginative questions while it forces the reader to think cleverly and divertingly of the answers. His approach to economics was done in a very unconventional way- as a smart, curious explorer parallel to Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Americas. There is not one common theme in Freakonomics

and say with you. “You wonder how could you let yourself do this and why do these people want to do this to you.” Mothers who sell sex for a living face a whole different style of life-work balance. From dealing with judgmental teachers to faking orgasms before the kids get home from school, it is one of the difficulties of living a double life. people seem to look at them differently, just because of the lifestyle they live; wish is morally wrong. As a child, it is sad to see your mom work as

stereotypes that the film industry will never get tired of enforcing. In 2002 the film Paid In Full was released. Paid In Full was a film about a young man who was working in a cleaning shop but he encounters a drug dealer. The drug dealer convinces him to join and he becomes one of the top leaders of the drug cartel. He also recruits his friends and they join him as well. The uncle of the protagonist asks him for money but he refuses to give him some. The uncle kidnaps Ace, the protagonist’s brother, and eventually