Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Hardcover

Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846145643 ISBN 13: 9781846145643

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2011

Synopsis

A slipcased hardback edition of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestselling phenomenon, with the original first Penguin edition artwork.

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.

About this title

About the Author

Steven D. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. His idiosyncratic economic research into areas as varied as guns and game shows has triggered debate in the media and academic circles. He recently received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the best American economist under forty.

Stephen J. Dubner lives in New York City. He writes for The New York Times and the New Yorker, and is the bestselling author of Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper. In August 2003 Dubner wrote a profile of Levitt in The New York Times magazine. The extraodinary response that article received led to a remarkable collaboration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846145643
• ISBN 13: 9781846145643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336