What motivates people? How do they get what they want? Economist Steven Levitt sets out to explore such questions, along with some of life’s riddles, in Freakonomics, co-authored by Stephen J. Dubner.
A professor at the University of Chicago, Mr. Levitt uses statistics to examine matters of everyday life: His subjects range from abortion and crime to game shows. Some of the chapter titles from Freakonomics illustrate Levitt’s wide-ranging curiosity: ’’Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?’’ and ’’How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?’’ are two. Levitt talks about his ideas with Scott Simon.
The Book examines various theories.These come larking at you as you ponder through the book wondering what the heck did you do wrong in your life to deserve this. The book has no solutions nor does it claim to offer any.The Book at best has just a gas bag of theories all meander and very restless.Leaves you quite confused at the end of it but nevertheless makes some funny & serious points backed up by a whole lot of statastics.
Seriously, An absolute waste of time.