Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
An economist applies incentives and data to sumo wrestlers, real estate agents, and drug dealers, revealing the hidden forces behind everyday behavior.
Economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner treat everyday life as a set of puzzles that data can crack. Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? Did legalised abortion cut crime a generation later? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers share when the incentive to cheat runs high? The answers are often uncomfortable, and the point is the method: follow the incentives and let the numbers overturn the conventional story.
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