Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Harper

2009

315 páginas

10h 30m

ISBN-13: 9780061956270

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

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He stuides the riddles of everyday life - and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they 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.

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3 (Bom)

Ensina, mas é pretensioso e busca a polêmica

Talvez esperasse mais do livro e por isso não gostei tanto.

Realmente traz elementos de crescimento e é possível aprender várias coisas interessantes (por isso não dei 2 estrelas).

De qualquer forma, o foco é trazer perguntas de efeito e alguns elementos de polêmica, o que considero chato…