by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · Imprint unknown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141025803
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«Freakonomics» is the economics essay by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by Penguin Books in paperback (242 pages, in English).
Levitt and Dubner explore with data and puzzling questions the incentives that drive human behaviour: from school fraud and sumo wrestlers to crime, parenting or real estate. The work challenges received ideas and shows that economics also explains the most surprising everyday phenomena.
First title in the Freakonomics series. The work won the Quill Award in 2005 and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award in 2006.
A read for those interested in economics applied to everyday life and in social phenomena seen from an analytical perspective.
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
