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Freakanomics Book Critique What do the Klu Klux Klan, real estate agents, Chicago gangs, and sumo wrestlers all have in 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

Freakonomics addresses three main ideas in the first chapter, titled, “What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” Steven D. Levitt introduce the scene of a daycare facility which. The author starts out having one imagine themselves as the manager of the daycare center. By four o clock, every child should be picked up from the facility because it is closing time. This is a known policy, but parents don’t abide by it because it is not enforced. There are no consequences for their actions

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, and the art of parenting. Chapter 1 of Freakonomics focuses on the beauty of incentives. It asks the question “What do teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” The answer is that they both

The nonfiction book Freakonomics, published in 2005, describes itself as “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”. It connects anything from game-fixing and statistics to abortion and crime to the economics of those things. The aim and scope of Freakonomics is to analyze data and statistics and relate it to what is occurring in the United States as well as the rest of the world. The fictional movie 12 Angry Men follows 12 men as the decide whether or not there is enough evidence

There are several kinds of national sports, such as sumo wrestling, kendo, and kyudo. Japanese believes that the national sports is a form of art. According to an article The Characteristics and Enlightenment of Japanese National Sports Culture (Suen and Chu, 2011), national sports is not only containing

One word to describe family is team. Relating to a sports team, there will be players who struggle with getting along, but it doesn’t take long to realize that the team will not work if everyone doesn’t figure out a way to compromise with all the diverse personalities they’ve got. With family comes struggle and disappointment but that will only to an increased relationship of love and loyalty. No matter what it is, when family struggles and starts to see the family bond weaken it only opens their

I am abruptly surprised to see Max’s smiling face everyday. After a long hard practice while we were drinking water all you could hear was “line up in weight class order,” and we all knew it was time for sumo. This was where there was a small circle and you had to push the other person out, and if you won you would keep moving up to the next person and the last man there wins. Everybody was talking and the word quickly spread that we were gonna let Max

Cody Goyer MWF 10:30-11:20 9/6/15 Freakonomics Essay #1 Due Date: 9/9/15 The first chapter in Freakonomics is a long comparison between two types of people you would probably never think to group together, or have anything to do with each other: Sumo wrestlers and school teachers. The main basis of the comparison is the concept of incentives, and how both parties cheat because of the incentives that they have. There are three basic forms of incentives. The first is economic, the second is social

interesting. Unfortunately, most of the practices that the chapters refer to are not how God intended for us to behave and live. In the first Chapter of Freakonomics, it discusses what Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers have in common. The thing that they have in common is cheating. I never knew that sumo wrestlers could cheat. I guess they could if they wanted to throw a win. Shocking though, is that is exactly what they do. They lose on purpose. They lie. One of the very Ten Commandments that we

covers of a best-selling book. From sumo wrestlers to real-estate agents to drug dealers, Levitt and Dubner delve into these and many other unconventional topics in a way that shines a new light on all of them--in a way that an economist would look at them. Levitt and Dubner have a unique way of connecting two seemingly unrelated subjects by using data to compare economic ideas. Data from standardized tests and wrestling tournaments show how schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers, respectively, resort to