SuperFreakonomics Essays

The book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a unique book because it makes the reader think about our society in a peculiar way. The book take uncommon topics or two opposites ideas and compares the two together to show how similar they are. For example, the two authors compare the Klu Klux Klan to a group of real estate agents, which is interesting because the direct relationship might not be easily apparent, but however they are fairly similar. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything “Where Have All the Criminals Gone” Paige Crites POLS 101 Summary “Where Have All the Criminals Gone” in Freakonomics, the authors talk mainly about the rises and falls of criminal activity in the United States in relation to abortion, but refers to the Communist dictator of Romania in 1966, Nicolae Ceausescu. This dictator ruled abortion illegal in the country, stating that “The fetus is property of the entire society

Levitt and Dubner classify Freakonomics as a book having “no such unifying theme” (14), but all the unique topics discussed throughout the text connect back together in order to show the hidden side of human nature. The argument that the wide variety of topics and their abstract descriptions all link together draws the attention of a large audience and connects to issues that society is currently facing or has recently confronted. Freakonomics is organized as an argumentative piece that asserts

Freakonomics was written to explain not only economics as the name suggests but also a slew of other topics and fields. Freakonomics discusses everything from the Ku Klux Klan to abortion, while managing to remain a single cohesive text. One thing that helps Freakonomics to remain a single piece of literature is the very distinct voice and writing style that Levitt and Dubner. The distinct writing style and voice also creates a tone that carries through the entire essay adding to the cohesion. Levitt

Whether male, female, married, single, conservative or liberal all people have a moral compass. The moral compass in Freakonimics does not point in one direction creating a new approach to economics. Authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephan J. Dubner suggest viewpoints on crime, abortion, and education from an economic prospective while ignoring the right or left minded political viewpoints. Chapter 4 of Freakonimics answers the very question it proposes: “Where have all the criminals gone?” To begin

Levitt and Dubner classify Freakonomics as a book having “no such unifying theme” (14), but all the unique topics discussed throughout the text connect back together in order to show the hidden side of human nature. The argument that the wide variety of topics and their abstract descriptions all link together draws the attention of a large audience and connects to issues that society is currently facing or has recently confronted. Freakonomics, organized as an argumentative piece, asserts that

Freakonomics is somewhat random grab bag of topics. The unifying theme of this book for me was finding ways to ask questions so that one's available statistics and data can provide an answer, time after time they used available statistics to provide some time of reasoning or answers to the question being asked. Some of these efforts were more successful than others. Some of the questions Levitt and Dubner study felt unnecessary, that no one really cares about. But there are also some good subjects

In the third chapter of Freakonomics, the question that is asked is “Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?” The first phrase that is brought up in this chapter is “conventional wisdom,” and economist named John Kenneth Galbraith goes into detail and describes this phrase as a type of information, this type of information reinforces one person’s type of interest and well-being. Conventional wisdom is described at convenient and comforting, but it does not always have to be that. It takes

1. Summaries: a. Intro: There is a hidden side to everything, no matter what it is in the world of economics. There is a disparity in morality and reality—morality is how we want the world to work, and reality or economics is how the world actually works. Book goes on to layout Freakonomics and define unusual phenomena that later become chapters. b. Chapter 1: This chapter talks about how everyone, no matter income level or kind, has an incentive to cheat to do just a little better. Schoolteachers

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything On April 2005, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything became one of the best-seller books, book of the year, and won a variety of other awards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything was written by an award-winning economist, Steven D. Levitt and a former editor and writer of the New York Times Magazine, Stephen J. Dubner. In this book the author and co-author tackle