Book Description Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in coommon? Why do drug dealers still live with their mums? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life - from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked 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 From Economist The book is a delight... It shows what plain old-fashioned economics can do in the hands of a boundlessly curious and superly skilled practitioner...Ingenious. About Author Steveb D. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. He recently received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the best American economist under forty. Stephen J. Dubner lives in New York City. He writes for The New York Times and The New Yorker and is the bestselling author of Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper . Book Dimension: length: (cm)17.2 　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　 　 width:(cm)10.5

在这本书中，列维特和史蒂芬·都伯纳取材日常生活，以经济学的方式来探索日常事物背后的世界：念书给婴儿听会不会使他日后成为一个好学生？游泳池比枪支还危险？贩毒集团的结构其实和麦当劳的组织很像，而且基层员工和小弟都没赚头，钱都进了总裁和大哥的口袋；父母教养方式的差异对孩子影响不大。 《魔鬼经济学》中确立了一个有悖于传统智慧的观点：如果说伦理道德代表了我们心目中理想的社会运行模式的话，那么经济学就是在向我们描述这个社会到底是如何运行的。 同时，作者也展示了千方百计搜集来的各种数据——学校的考试成绩、日本著名相扑手的秘密证据、房地产经纪人的买卖记录，甚至还有黑社会卧底的秘密日记。通过对这些数据的巧妙分析，作者得出了种种令人跌破眼镜的结论。他将教会你如何用数据分析你所看到的世界；他将告诉你：真实的世界原来是这样的……