William Levitt

Economics can be applied in many situations where you wouldn’t normally expect it found. In “Freakonomics”, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors attempt to reveal what is happening behind the curtain of modern day life by comparing what you would think are two completely different people or subjects, and they relate these seemingly uncommon topics to more sophisticated economic concepts. The authors initially claimed that there was no theme, but after reading the book I have realized

Todd Beyer Freakonomics P.8 Economics Mr. Mittlestadt Author Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s, “#1 New York Times Bestseller” Freakonomics, is based on how they believe economics relates to past, present and future times and events around the world. Economics is apart of our society no matter what or how we look at it. Economics deals with production, distribution and consumption of how goods and services interact with our every day society. Throughout the story of Freakonomics

“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, whereas economics represents how it actually does work.” as once stated by Steven D. Levitt in his book Freakonomics, where he dives into the unknown world of economics. Through each chapter he and his partner, Stephen D. Dubner, sought up questions that one does not think about on a regular basis. For example, what is more dangerous, a swimming pool or a gun? What do teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common

Freakomoics and Identity The book, “Freakomonics A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything”is the storytelling of Crime, numbers and people. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner speak the numbers of economics in stories of real people living under their real circumstances. Since 1997, Levitt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago who is recognized by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 People Who Shape Our World. Dunber is an author of award winning books and a

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dunbar is a book that takes economics into a whole other level by exploring different aspects of society and analyzing them in new and unique ways. It shows how everyday decisions, purchases, and situations affect the economy as well as decisions, purchases, and situations that don’t occur every day, such as gangs, cheating, and parenting. Conclusions derived from different investigations about such controversial topics throughout the book will often

The Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt is an award winning economist. Stephen J. Dubner is an award winning writer. The two met in Chicago, and the result was Freakonomics, a book that claims to explore the hidden side of everything, using real-life examples such as studies and polls conducted by Levitt to explain how economics is everywhere, that economics is how the world really functions. Through everything from analyzing the inner thought processes of real-estate agents and crack dealers

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

their stores. The author of Super Crunchers is Ian Ayres and he classifies himself to be a number cruncher. As of when the book was written, he was teaching law at Yale. Ian Ayres learned econometrics while studying at MIT for his Ph.D. Steve Levitt and Ian Ayres wrote a paper on whether LoJack helped reduce auto theft in general. Their paper looked at auto theft in fifty-six cities over a period fourteen year, which determined that having LoJack in a high theft area would reduce losses of people

nature of the topic. Abortion is a topic in which people’s views are just as diverse as the population itself. Most people avoid writing about such topics altogether, especially when they are in support of such an act. However when economist Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J Dubner wrote chapter 4 of “Freakonomics” titled “Where have all the Criminals Gone?” they did just that. The chapter details historical examples of bans on abortion, possible reasons for the sharp decline in crime in the US,

concerned with incentives, it is also one with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives” (Levitt and Dubner, 2005). After reading the book Freakonomics, I more than ever believe that virtually any subject can be picked, and somehow “fit” into economics. To once again quote Levitt and Dubner, “economics is explaining how people get what they want or need”. (Levitt and Dubner, 2005). One of the most interesting topics the two authors of Freakonomics, broached in the book was