William Levitt

Chapter three of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt lays out an argument against the population’s capacity to hastily believe conventional wisdom. Commencing the chapter with anecdotes about faulty statistics and facts provided by so called “experts,” Levitt sews a seed of suspicion in the reader’s mind. Citing anyone from homelessness experts, to women's rights activists, to police departments, Levitt walks the reader through erroneous proclamations by individuals who drive the common knowledge of everyday

altruistic nature of humans. Each chapter provides many stories, data, background, and commentary on how this system is functioning poorly, could be improved, or related to other larger issues in society, such as combating terrorism. In their introduction, Levitt and Dubner discuss seeing the world from the perspective of economists and include being a person in an undeveloped nation such as India and the transition from horses to cars, as well as talking about statistics and the bending of knowledge. This

Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, the authors, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, explore and analyze highly-charged economic subjects. The authors take well-known topics, such as popular culture, and analyze them from an economic standpoint, in ways that may have not been thought of before. However, these diverse and controversial topics are presented in such a way that does not offend the reader. Levitt and Dubner achieve the delicate balance between the offensive and non-offensive

In chapter three of Freakonomics, Levitt answers the question “Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Parents?” The chapter begins with a quote by economist John Kenneth Galbraith who said “We associate truth with convenience” . This means that the public will not challenge or doubt a reasonable statistic. For example, an advocate for the homeless named Mitch Snyder compared the recent history of homelessness in the United States, and most of the people being crack dealers. To determine the condition

casual and humorous, almost sarcastic in a way. Levitt and Dubner make the book interesting by making wild comparisons. Then, they justify these comparisons with hard evidence and it is quite amazing. Levitt and Dubner’s casual attitude is seen in almost every part of the book. For example, take this quote: “The problem with crack dealing is the same as in every other glamour profession: a lot of people are competing for a very few prizes” (Levitt and Dubner, pg. 103). This strange way of regarding

The authors of Freakonomics use rhetorical devices, namely cause and effect, to connect a study and its data to their ideas. This connection is essential in furthering their analysis and argument about a certain problem or “riddle” of everyday life, while making their explanations logical for readers. There is a pattern evident in almost every chapter of the novel that involves the authors introducing the riddle, assessing the data and what it means for their position on the subject matter, and

selling their houses at a lower price in order to make money quicker by having a quicker turnaround time. The findings even showed that agents would keep their house on the market of an average of 3 weeks longer than a non-real estate agents house (Levitt & Dubner, 2005). Real estate agents will also make a house sound better by specific terms that they use when listing it. They try to make it sound better than it is, but other real estate agents know what they mean. The consumers and sellers do

Chapter 3 of Superfreakonomics claims people in the world are both altruistic and apathetic. The first part of Chapter 3 is a murder crime of a woman called Kitty Genovese. She was killed by a man and newspapers indicated that 38 person have seen this murder but didn’t call the police. This criminal case astonished so many people and after this case, the criminal rate in USA began to rise. Writers analyze that there are 3 factors cause the rise of crime. The first one is the policy of release

Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics brings together many combinations of thoughts that one wouldn’t find relevant in companionship. The two authors discuss comparisons that are so off the wall, that you almost question reading the book; however, that is the reason many read the book in the first place. The authors Levitt and Dubner compare in one chapter of Freakonomics the reason why drug dealers live with

complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not un- knowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more in- triguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. - Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonmics is a book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubuer. Steven d. Lennits is the living definition of the phrase “ Think Outside the Box” He is not a typical economist, he even states it in the book’s introduction, “I’m not good at math, I don’t know a lot of econometrics, and I also