Freakonomics

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》。

出版者:William Morrow

作者:Steven D. Levitt

页数:256

出版时间:2005-5-1

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780060731328

图书标签:经济学economics经济freakonomics英文原版科普社会英文

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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

读后感

李华芳：经济学与侦探术——评《魔鬼经济学》 假设一个人被蛇咬了，然后死了，你会得出什么结论？不懂侦探术的普通人就下一个结论，他被蛇咬死了。不过对于犯罪实验室 的家伙们来说，需要有证据说明蛇是毒蛇，死者血液里有毒素，才能证明他被蛇咬死了。也就是说，要解剖尸体才...  

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经济学是个非常骗人的东西。 如果你是经济学科班，大学里第一门专业课应该是经济学原理，你发现这门课里充满了简单有趣却对你思维产生革命意义的天才智慧，于是你对你将来的学习充满了憧憬和希望。 可是快乐的时光总是短暂的，在这第一门专业课结束之后，你突然发现好日子走到...  

李华芳：经济学与侦探术——评《魔鬼经济学》 假设一个人被蛇咬了，然后死了，你会得出什么结论？不懂侦探术的普通人就下一个结论，他被蛇咬死了。不过对于犯罪实验室 的家伙们来说，需要有证据说明蛇是毒蛇，死者血液里有毒素，才能证明他被蛇咬死了。也就是说，要解剖尸体才...  

Freakonomics已经在纽约时报畅销书排行榜上待了46周。这本书现在也有了中文简体版，译名是《魔鬼经济学》。从原书名看，freakonomics=freak+economics，是作者自创的一个词汇，意思大概就是用economics的方法来研究一些 freak的现象，或者也可以理解成freak研究的经济学，因此...  

用户评价

还好了，就是那种励志电影还有友情的那种啊，小鹿好可爱

interesting read. mind opening, yet could be better...I sort of got 80% of the points in the first chapter and then had to read the whole thing just to do it again, with more detailed stories added.

offers very interesting perspectives to understand the wisdom that everyone believes in

大杂烩

所以講…經濟學家的副業很多：折學家，舌會學家，心離學家，統雞學家，黍學家，坐家，撒謊家…其實吾覺得有點基礎來看看，再分析分析還是蠻有意思的；沒的入門也不錯…一看，果然是芝加哥經濟學派呀……昂～