num_pages: 315
description: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head.Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more.Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
language: English
title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
titlecomplete: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
genres: Business, Sociology, Politics, Finance, Nonfiction, Economics, Social Science, Science, Audiobook, Psychology
ratings_count: 833643
series: Freakonomics
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Financial Times Business Book of the Year
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Business
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks