Freakonomics

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Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" is the cult bestseller that will show you a totally new way of seeing the world. What do estate agents & the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? What do schoolteachers & sumo wrestlers have in common? How can your name affect how well you do in life? The answer: " Freakonomics". It's at the heart of everything we do & the things that affect us daily from sex to crime parenting to politics fat to cheating fear to traffic jams. & it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life. Now updated with the authors' " New York Times" columns & blog entries! "A phenomenon". (" Observer"). " Non-stop fun". (" Evening Standard"). " Brilliant.. .you'll be stimulated provoked & entertained. Of how many books can that be said?" " Sunday Telegraph". Steven Levitt the man with 'the most interesting mind in America' (Malcolm Gladwell) is the rogue economist whose controversial ideas have caused a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. In " Freakonomics" he joins forces with Stephen Dubner " New York Times" & " New Yorker" journalist & bestselling author of " Turbulent Souls" & " Confessions of a Hero Worshipper" to create a gripping revolutionary new take on the world."