怪诞经济学Freakonomics.-.Steven.Levitt

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《怪诞经济学Freakonomics.-.Steven.Levitt》
作者:[美]斯蒂芬·利维特

芝加哥大学年轻的经济学教授“挑战传统智慧”，一改传统经济学家的研究方式，将视角落在人们日常所见的种种“琐碎”问题及其背后的因果。他与斯蒂芬·达纳合写的此书可读性强，很多读者读后感觉自己的视角开始改变。利维特毕业于哈佛大学，获麻省理工学院博士学位，对政治学、社会学和法律皆有涉猎。

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? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded young scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing – and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked 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.

FREAKONOMICS

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
Everything

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

CONTENTS

AN EXPLANATORY NOTE

In which the origins of this book are clarified.

INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything

In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how
people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does
work.

Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong…How “experts”—from
criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts…Why
knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding
modern life…What is “freakonomics,” anyway?

1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?

In which we explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side—
cheating.

Who cheats? Just about everyone…How cheaters cheat, and how to catch
them…Stories from an Israeli day-care center…The sudden disappearance of
seven million American children…Cheating schoolteachers in Chicago…Why
cheating to lose is worse than cheating to win…Could sumo wrestling, the
national sport of Japan, be corrupt?…What the Bagel Man saw: mankind may be
more honest than we think.

2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?

In which it is argued that nothing is more powerful th