by Andrea Montero Cusset, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070341795
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«Freakonomics» is the economics popularisation essay by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by Gallimard in paperback (352 pages, in French).
The essay uses data and statistics to address social phenomena: it links the legalisation of abortion to the fall in crime, reveals the incentives of real estate agents and asks why drug dealers live with their mothers. It shows how hidden incentives explain unexpected social behaviours.
First title in the Freakonomics series. The original work was published in 2005; this edition is the French translation published in 2007.
For readers interested in economics, sociology and data analysis who seek provocative explanations based on empirical evidence.
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.
