revised.” Soon after the original publication of Freakonomics, in April 2005, we began writing a monthly column for the New York Ti es Magazine. We have in-cluded in this edition several of these columns, on subjects ranging from voting behavior to dog poop to the economics of sexual
But because Freakonomics explores all sorts of modern real-world issues, and because the modern world tends to change quite fast, we have gone through the book and made a number of minor updates.
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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.
Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong…How “experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts…Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life…What is “freakonomics,” anyway?
As we were writing Freakonomics, we had grave doubts that anyone would actually read it—and we certainly never envisioned the need for this revised and expanded edition.
In "Freakonomics," Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner challenge conventional thinking by exploring unconventional questions: Is a swimming pool more dangerous than a gun? What links schoolteachers with sumo wrestlers? And how significant are parents in shaping their children's futures?