Book Description

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?

What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in coommon?

Why do drug dealers still live with their mums?

How much do parents really matter?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life - from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: Freakonomics

From Economist

The book is a delight... It shows what plain old-fashioned economics can do in the hands of a boundlessly curious and superly skilled practitioner...Ingenious.

About Author

Steveb D. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. He recently received the 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-Worshiper .

Book Dimension:

length: (cm)17.2 　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　 　 width:(cm)10.5

史蒂芬·列维特，1994年在麻省理工大学取得经济学博士学位。1997年进入芝加哥大学执教短短两年时间列维特就成为芝加哥大学经济学院终身教授。2002年列维特被选为美国科学院经济学部委员。列维特还担任《政治经济学杂志》（JPE）的编辑和《经济学季刊》（OJE）的编辑。

史蒂芬·都伯纳，《纽约时报》和《纽约客》长期撰稿人，著有畅销书《骚动的灵魂》和《一个英雄崇拜者的自白》。