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:HarperLargePrint

作者:Steven D. Levitt

页数:476

出版时间:2006-11-01

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780061245138

图书标签:经济管理成长思维商业

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing—and whose conclusions turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple 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. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics , they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

读后感

这本书曾经高居Amazon排行榜，而且，他从英文翻译成中文，也是速度比较快的。我在豆瓣的第一个好友Windrose早早就为此书写过一篇书评，感兴趣的可以去参考。 既然已经不是时髦阅读物，现在来补写书评，我就勉为其难的语出惊人一回。 很多推介这本书的人，都介绍到作者讲了6...  

读完了《魔鬼经济学》。虽说相对于它的名声，确给人盛名之下，其实难符之感，不过我还是认为，至少它是部值得一读的书。“从根本上改变你看待这个世界的方式”，牛皮吹得大了些，但“揭示隐藏在表象之下的真实世界”，却是基本上名符其实的。 首先，我并没有将它作为一部纯正...  

用晚上三个小时的时间，看完了现在比较流行的一本书Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everthing (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, 2006)的中译本（刘祥亚译，广东经济出版社）。 其实很早自己就有了这本书的英文原版，看了一半，觉得很好玩，所...  

看教育技术的趋势，去看纽约时报的畅销书排行榜最好。果然，今年的Blackboard（含被兼并的WebCT）用户会议上，主旨发言者是《魔鬼经济学》（Freakonomics）作者之一芝加哥大学经济教授Steven D. Levitt。我不是很肯定他的话题和远程教育有何相关，只是其生猛程度，和三闾大学欢...  

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...