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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything
Christian Century, Dec 13, 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything. By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Morrow, 256 pp., $25.95.
The notion that high abortion rates explain low crime rates offends pretty much everybody (as William Bennett found out), but that's the kind of unconventional analysis of data that Levitt and Dubner enjoy. They offer unexpected economic explications of everyday behavior--like wily people steal (or don't steal) bagels from the office kitchen and why drug dealers live with their mothers. "Morality represents the way the world should work," the authors say, and "economics represents the way the world actually does work." This book makes you think differently about how morality and economics intersect.
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