Freakonmics: A Rougue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything What they were all responding to was the force of Levitt’s underly- ing belief: that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not un- knowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more in- triguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking.
- Stephen J. Dubner.Freakonmics is a book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubuer. Steven d. Lennits is the living definition of the phrase “ Think Outside the Box” He is not a typical economist, he even states it in the book’s introduction, “I’m not good at math, I don’t know a lot of econometrics, and I also don’t know how to do theory.
” This marks right away Lennits to a different approach of ways to get his audience attention, he steps outside of the boundaries most people in society live by. Freakonomics, is a book that really triggered my imagination as a kept on reading, I really loved it. I myself started asking myself a great amount of questions that I had never looked at before.Especially toward the end that he asks the importance of ones parents with him. Levitt uses a smart technique to catch the audience attention, he uses really weird questions as chapter titles like: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? This chapter focuses on what incentive you need to lie or cheat.
How the Ku Klux Klan is like a group of real estate agents? This chapter focuses on how to use context clues to determine what is the truth behind the idea people are trying to sell you. Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?This chapter tries to go in the underlying logic of why do some people take the risk of being a drug dealer if they are getting paid minimum wage or less. Where have all the criminals gone? This chapter exposes a hypothesis of how abortion helped reduce crime rates. What makes the perfect Parent? Furthermore this chapter asks us to look in our own lives to see the importance of our parents even if we do not believe it. Would Roshanda by Any other name be smell as sweet? This chapter goes on by saying that even the name your parents assign to you shows a bit of their love.
These as you can see they are not the usual chapter titles, these do leave you thinking “What? ” or “Really why? ” This keeps you reading. It is really hard not to be triggered by the answers of these questions and the interpretation of them in your daily lives. The facts that actually caught the most my attention was the on Chapter 4 was that he stated that as Crack become more popular they had a few more police going against it, but this actually did not change much, it only made it better for drug dealer. You might wonder why? So read the book, just kidding. Here it goes, how the drugs Were now scarcer they could put the prices higher.
This teaches us that we have to really look careful to what our government does, because we at the moment might think its better but it sometimes can be worse. This book is an eye opener, making you look at things in a different way changing your views and perspective of things we thought were impossible or that they had no relationship at all. He incentives you to formulate the correct questions by questioning everything that you feel curious about. Just remember what a genius once said, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
"- Albert Einstein. Just remember how the book says “ Nothing is un- knowable!
