by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467221121
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«Freakonomics» is the economics essay by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by FisicalBook in hardback (254 pages, in Spanish).
Drawing on real data and unexpected questions, Levitt and Dubner show how incentives shape human behaviour and examine cases such as corruption among estate agents, the Ku Klux Klan or drug dealers who live with their mothers.
First volume in the Freakonomics series. The Spanish edition was published on 1 October 2006.
For readers who want to discover how economics can explain everyday and seemingly unconnected phenomena.
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.
