by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · Penguin Books Ltd (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141035307
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«Freakonomics» is the economics essay by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by Penguin Books in paperback (285 pages, in English).
Starting from everyday questions (is a swimming pool more dangerous than a gun? what do teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?), it examines how incentives shape decisions and behaviours, from parenting to crime, and dismantles conventional wisdom with data and economics.
First instalment of the «Freakonomics» series; Penguin Celebrations edition, published in 2007.
For readers of economics, sociology and psychology who want an accessible and provocative essay on human behaviour.
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.
