Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything /
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- London: Penguin Books, 2006.
- xv,: 320 p.
An explanatory note -- Introduction: the hidden side of everything -- What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? -- How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? -- Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? -- Where have all the criminals gone? -- What makes a perfect parent? -- Perfect parenting, Part II, or would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet? -- Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.
Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, 'Freakonomics' will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.