num_pages: 320
description: What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? How can your name affect how well you do in life?The answer: Freakonomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life.Now updated with the authors' New York Times columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life's secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.--back cover
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: Sociology, Audiobook, Psychology, Science, Politics, Economics, Finance, Business, Social Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 833352
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: Penguin