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Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually But Steven D. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not unknowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more intriguing than we think.
Freakonomics is a new way of looking. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality.
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They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality.
Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality.
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