Stephen J. Dubner

Steven Levitt, and a New York Times journalist, Stephen J. Dubner. The book is written in a manner of self-help in which readers themselves, who are after innovation in business and marketing, are able to incentivize and persuade the people. The main message focuses on making decisions and choices appealing to a larger group that could have once started off as a decision to be of one’s own private benefit. In order, to “think like a Freak” as Dubner and Levitt put it, one must first be able to put

Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics brings together many combinations of thoughts that one wouldn’t find relevant in companionship. The two authors discuss comparisons that are so off the wall, that you almost question reading the book; however, that is the reason many read the book in the first place. The authors Levitt and Dubner compare in one chapter of Freakonomics the reason why drug dealers live with their moms

Chapter 3: Conventional Wisdom Freakonomics was one of the best novels that I have ever read! I am truly amazed at how Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner compared their study and research to the economy that we live in today. Out of all of the chapters in Freakonomics, Chapter 3: Conventional Wisdom, is the one that stood out the most. This particular topic relates to the world in many different ways. Conventional wisdom is often wrong. Conventional wisdom can be described as the ideas or beliefs

intended audience of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s Freakonomics is made up of middle class Americans and comprised of adults and teenagers with a basic education and a broad knowledge of a wide range of subjects. Since Levitt and Dubner reference a large variety of topics, it is imperative for the audience to also be familiar with a wide variety of subjects or at the very least to be aware of popular culture and government. For example, when Levitt and Dubner reference a Supreme Court case, Roe

genre, and date of original publication. Freakonomics is the title of this nonfiction book; it was written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. On April 12, 2005, by HarperCollins. 2. What is author’s purpose for writing the book? Write a paragraph summarizing the main argument or purpose. In this unique book, economist Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist team up to create a powerful and freakish work that challenges the typical rules of economics

People are altruistic when helping is profitable. In chapter 3: “Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism” of their book SuperFreakonomics (2009), Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner state that people are not pure altruistic. (125) Furthermore, people are altruistic when there are beneficial incentives for them. On my high school’s Hallowmas back in China, some students possess booths for selling things. One friend who wanted to sell lottery tickets asked me for help because he didn’t have

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, it talks about dealing with societal mores, economic incentives, and cheating. With schoolteachers, the possibility of getting a pay raise and the grades their students get on standardized tests are some of the incentives that derive them to cheat. In the book, Levitt explains how he examines sets of answers to these tests and tries to see a pattern if teachers were changing answers for their students. Dubner and Levitt, both incorporate samples

Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, the authors, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, explore and analyze highly-charged economic subjects. The authors take well-known topics, such as popular culture, and analyze them from an economic standpoint, in ways that may have not been thought of before. However, these diverse and controversial topics are presented in such a way that does not offend the reader. Levitt and Dubner achieve the delicate balance between the offensive and non-offensive by

In Levitt and Dubner’s novel, Freakonomics, they deal with the sensitive subject of abortions in chapter four. During this section, Levitt and Dubner are purposing that the drop of crime is not because of the many popular ideas they address but instead because of abortions becoming legalized. Providing proof to their argument, they list out all the popular ideas that many people believe to be the cause of the drop in crime and then one by one explain why these ideas could not fit into the massive

comparison of crime and abortion, we look at what authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner writes in their book Freakonomics and what Dr. Brian Clowes, director of education and research at Human Life International, writes in his article “Does Abortion Really Reduce Crime?”. The most significant debate contrasting among the two sources is if abortion is the cause of the diminishment of the crime rate. Levitt and Dubner claim that high abortion rates in a nation diminishes crime, while Clowes claims