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Chargement... Freakonomics (2005)par Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Les sumos trichent. Le saviez-vous? Les informations publiques suffisent à le démontrer! Chaque article traite, de façon décalée et sérieuse, d'un sujet différent, permettant de jeter un regard neuf sur des faits sociaux ou économiques. Le fruit de la coopération entre un économiste et un journaliste. ( ) Drôle, incongru, decoiffant...ce livre explore par le petit bout de la lorgnette des tendances de fond en economie, toujours de manière censée puisque tout repose sur des chiffres mais explorés depuis une perspective totalement décalée. A lire pour ceux qui auraient été rebuté par l'economie car ici il s'agit d'etudier l'economie à travers des faits incongrus (qui se révèlent être en fin de compte des effets secondaires de tendances de fond).
Economists can seem a little arrogant at times. They have a set of techniques and habits of thought that they regard as more ''rigorous'' than those of other social scientists. When they are successful -- one thinks of Amartya Sen's important work on the causes of famines, or Gary Becker's theory of marriage and rational behavior -- the result gets called economics. It might appear presumptuous of Steven Levitt to see himself as an all-purpose intellectual detective, fit to take on whatever puzzle of human behavior grabs his fancy. But on the evidence of ''Freakonomics,'' the presumption is earned. The book, unfortunately titled Freakonomics, is broken into six chapters, each posing a different social question. Levitt and Dubner answer them using empirical research and statistical analysis. And unlike academics who usually address these matters, they don't clutter the prose with a lot of caveats. They just show you the goods. Freakonomics is about unconventional wisdom, using the raw data of economics in imaginative ways to ask clever and diverting questions. Levitt even redefines his definition. If, as he says, economics is essentially about incentives and how people realise them, then economics is a prospecting tool, not a laboratory microscope. Est contenu dansFreakonomics Set - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Signed Edition - Easton Press); Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance; Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain par Steven D. Levitt Fait l'objet d'une suite (ne faisant pas partie de la série) dansA inspiréContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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 Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life--from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing--and his conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. The authors 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. In this book, they set out to explore the hidden side of everything. If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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