Freakonomics

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.