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University of Chicago, Steven Levitt, and a New York Times journalist, Stephen J. Dubner. The book is written in a manner of self-help in which readers themselves, who are after innovation in business and marketing, are able to incentivize and persuade the people. The main message focuses on making decisions and choices appealing to a larger group that could have once started off as a decision to be of one’s own private benefit. In order, to “think like a Freak” as Dubner and Levitt put it, one must first

Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, it opened my eyes to the most interesting approach to the world. The book name in itself is an odd and unique title. It defines Steven Levitt’s irregular approach to the world of economics and makes you “forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates”, says Publishers Weekly. Steven Levitt focuses his attention on relevant everyday life situations that truly

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unravel the untold stories of life. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner break common misconceptions of economics by revealing its true science. Freakonomics shatters the view of economics being an arid study of finance and markets. They pull in information to make inferences on past occurrences subtly influence on the present. Freakonomics packs punches with its countless number of tables and figures, serving as concrete data to make their assumptions. Levitt & Dubner in the beginning identify the fundamental

In the book Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner discuss how child moral behaviors are connected to how effective a parent can be when it comes to enforcing rules and rewarding good actions. This form of tactic, known as incentives, is a way to accomplish things to get what is needed or desired. The concept to incentives is that a child should be able to learn from his or her mistake and gain an understanding of right and wrong. Not only do incentives pertain to a child’s behavioral

Economics truly outstanding is its diversity and broad range of application. I have recently began reading economic literature, it seems as if the more I read the more enthralling Economics becomes. A novel I have read recently, “Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner, is about the versatility of data, how data can be used to solve complex problems and how data can provoke insightful questions. I remember one night thinking how some lawyers earn a lot of money while others have an average salary

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

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is an enlightening novel that shows people how the world actually works. Throughout the six chapters of this book, Levitt and Dubner delve into the complexity of the modern world. The authors of this book manage to ask questions that, though unlikely, actually shed light on how and why people do what they do, and the effects of their actions .They also manage to explain common misconceptions

​Freakonomics is a book that explores the many 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

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Freakonomics an eight (8). In Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner reform the conventional perspective of economics—a tiresome profession concerning monetary and fiscal matters—into a sui generis method of evaluating the world around us. Levitt and Dubner seek to expand the minds of their readers with the idea that economics can be found in obscure places. This can be exampled through the juxtapositions formed between the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents