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Levitt And Dubner's Freakonomics

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words: freak and economics. Freak, by definition, means abnormality or oddity and most people might familiarize economics solely with finance or commerce. However, Levitt and Dubner break this common misconception and reveal how to world actually works, as opposed to distinguishing everything with morality and how everyone thinks the world should work.
Book Report The first major concept that Freakonomics explores is incentives and how our economy revolves around it. We explore our incentives during our everyday lives in school, work, and even relationships. The perspective this book gives on incentives allows its readers to see the choices that people make more critically in order to determine which incentives are motivating them best. Another

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