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Steven D. Levitt
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Stephen J. Dubner 出版社: William Morrow 副标题: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 出版年: 2005-5-1 页数: 242 定价: USD 25.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060731328
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 Fre...
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
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...
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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...
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0 有用 zhenmafan 2011-04-21 03:39:58
还算有意思的故事加某些insight.不过没展开,只能作为刺激好奇心的书啦,想检验下作者整个思路还是去翻翻levitt的论文好了.
2 有用 dotann 2006-12-04 04:56:32
很有趣，更应该算是一本社会学读物。
0 有用 Hao 2011-11-14 09:24:57
当年的 NYT Best Sellers 之一。印象不深。
0 有用 浅草 2015-08-23 18:19:12
死理性派的心灵鸡汤
0 有用 望月沉沦 2015-06-12 01:40:53
offers very interesting perspectives to understand the wisdom that everyone believes in
0 有用 YettiSoda 2022-12-23 00:36:16 加拿大
打着经济学的幌子实则是大众科普读物，有一些新奇的点子和趣味性，但和经济学几乎不沾边，和“牛奶可乐经济学”一路货，属于嗑瓜子看看的读物。
0 有用 溪湖夜航船 2022-08-06 00:33:15
好多年前一个经济学同学推荐给我的。发黄的环保纸都遮不住有趣的故事。适合脑洞大开的我。
0 有用 Glovesun 2022-07-20 08:34:32
Too many details, but few points.
0 有用 迷信鉴定员小谈 2022-07-12 12:25:01
有些有点意思
0 有用 不要焦虑 2022-06-15 07:29:03
在揭示真相时竟有一种阅读传奇的激动