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This book is very interesting! Engaging book. Can be enjoyed with laughs and insight-fullness. For the majority of people you will definitely find something that suits you.
This book is truly fascinating and provocative as it turns the conventional wisdom on its head. It looks at the reality of how humans behave. Very well written. Written for the layman.
The answers to the many questions the authors investigate are almost always not what we would expect, but they always make sense. Some make sense in an alarming way, and some in a mind-boggling way. These two messages are certainly compatible. They sh... Read More
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I like everything in a book to connect, but this book just felt like it was all over the place. It is repetitive, read the introduction and you have read the book. Half the book is bonus material at the end, which consists of magazine articles.
It's useless information that doesn't amount or prompt a different way of thinking, but other reason why black people are disenfranchised and how there is a ton of systematic racism. It seems that almost every example the authors use is assumed to hav... Read More
I consider this book nothing more than a scam. The pages are of radically different sizes are are incredibly rough.
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Once you understand how to observe the world with the long-view lens, you will gain more skill in discernment.
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Levitt is an economist at the prestigious university of chicago.
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It came in perfect condition and shipping was fast.
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So if youd like to know how or when sumo wrestlers would fix a match or why crime decreases 20 years after abortion is made widely available this is the book for you
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He makes simple arguments based on data
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A lot of different perspectives on the same thing
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Dubner read more like a take on sociology than an academic treatise on economics
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Due to their unconventional approach the authors chose the title 34freakonomics34 for their book indicating that it draws from the field of economics but often strays from that discipline or tackles questions that other economists do not
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Dubner is a journalist who met levitt when he wrote an article about him for the new york times magazine
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Presumably the ideas in 34freakonomics34 are levitts while dubner is responsible for the wordsmithing
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