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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Audiobook

Audiobook Details

  • Written by: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
  • Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
  • File Size: 275 MB
  • File Format: MP3 (inside ZIP)
  • Length: 6 hours and 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Harper Audio
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • ASIN: B000MAH66Y, B000TK5BS2
  • ISBN-10: 0060731338, 0713998067, 0063032376, 0061956279, 0062314246, 006073132X
  • ISBN-13: 9780060731335, 9780061234002, 9780063032378, 9780061956270, 970062314246, 9780060731328

Original price was: $45.00.Current price is: $24.99.

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Author(s)

Stephen J Dubner

Steven D. Levitt

In the Freakonomics audiobook, learn:

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from parenting and sports to cheating and crime—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Freakonomics (audiobook) is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Dubner, award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, the truth about real estate agents, and much more.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they both 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.

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 1000 cocktail parties. But it can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

Reviews

“The guy is very interesting!” (Washington Post Book World)
“Freakonomics was the ‘it’ book of 2005.” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
“Levitt is a number cruncher extraordinaire..” (Philadelphia Daily News)
“The trivia alone is worth the cover price.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Levitt is one of the most notorious economists of our age.” (Financial Times)
“An unconventional economist defies conventional wisdom.” (Associated Press)
“An eye-opening, and most interesting, approach to the world.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Provocative………. eye-popping.” (New York Times Book Review: Inside the List)
“One of the decade’s most intelligent and provocative audiobooks.” (The Daily Standard)
“Principles of economics are used to examine daily life in this fun read.” (People: Great Reads)
“An easy, funny read. Many unsolvable problems the Americans have could be solved with simple means.” (Business World)
“A showcase for Levitt’s intriguing explorations into a number of disparate topics. There’s plenty of fun to be had.” (Salon.com)
“Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America… Prepare to be dazzled.” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point)
“If Indiana Jones were an economist, he’d be Levitt… Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae.” (Wall Street Journal)
“The funkiest study of statistical mechanics ever by a world-renowned economist… Eye-opening and sometimes eye-popping” (Entertainment Weekly)
“Levitt dissects complex real-world phenomena, e.g. baby-naming patterns and Sumo wrestling, with an economist’s laser.” (San Diego Union-Tribune)

“Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way…. This is bracing fun of the highest order.” (Kurt Andersen, host of public radio’s Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century)

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