Freakonomics

Freakonomics
By Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics is not one-sided in its views; it’s a survey of the Steven D. Levitt work. His work uses completely different pieces of thought “having practical or industrial significance or usages”. He gives HIS views, to give HIS answers to the questions (other than the typical ones asked in the simple or complex business reports). His study questions and gives you HIS answers, like’ em or not. The other author, Stephen J. Dubner works in journalism. It was started easily for him by writing a profile of Levitt for New York Times Magazine. The mere thoughts of one man are expanded into this work of highs and lows from different views.
The open theme of this book, for me, was discovering the easiest ways of asking questions. Then having the easiest ways of answering: using all the available stats and data to provide answers. After the easy questions and easy answers, they find the opposite of what someone else would perceive as the answers, and then give you those answers. Some were really good... the others were kind of a way to walk the line not going one way OR the other. Here’s one: The self-revelation that real estate agents use, when selling their own homes on the market, hold out longer and sell for a much higher price! I hope that doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone with a limited quantity of knowledge and a “necessary” attitude. Although separation of a whole into different kinds of parts (i.e. different people...

Freakonomics

Login

Join