Book Report: Freakonomics For my fourth quarter book report I decided to read Freakonomics by Steven D. Levit and Stephan J. Dubner. To be honest‚ I was dreading reading this book. My first thought was that it was going to be boring and like all economic textbooks‚ but I am happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised! Not only is this book easy to read and understand‚ but it also completely changed my outlook on the subject of economics. I now have an appreciation for economics and understand
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Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt‚ Stephen J. Dubner "(Feldman wondered if perhaps the executives cheated out of an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.What he didn’t consider is that perhaps cheating was how they got to be executives.)... If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work‚ then the story of Feldman’s bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics"(46)Levitt‚ and Dubner. Levitt implements his first
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Levitt and Dubner‚ in chapter 4 of their book “Freakonomics”: "Where Have All the Criminals Gone?" give a description of several interconnections in the midst of different instances. The two writers affirm that in 1988 and 1994‚ there was a reduction in the rates of crimes. The duo validates their argument by pointing at how the candid laws that initially permitted abortion and those that later followed that prohibited it impacted crime rates in the US either negatively or positively. In this work
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Nick McNosky Econ 250 9-25-14 Freakonomics If there is one main idea of this book‚ it is that economics can explain many things. What the authors of the book are trying to do is to promote economic thinking. Chapter one (What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?) mainly talks about the human nature of cheating. For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme‚ there are many of people who will inevitably spend more time trying to beat
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people think of economics they often regard it as the study of dry‚ untrusting Financial trends and market developments‚ but Steven D. Levitt’s freakonomics is groundbreaking in the economic field shows that economic research can be used as the basis to study relationships that underlie the events and problems we encounter about every day. In Freakonomics‚ Levitt and his co-author‚ journalist Stephen Dubner‚ give the reader his take on some of the most interesting research topics they have tackled
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Summary of Reading – Chapter #2 Chapter 2 of The New Jim Crow focuses on how the system of mass incarceration works. Alexander concentrates on the "War on Drugs‚" because "convictions for drug offenses are the single most important cause of the explosion in incarceration rates in the United States." Early on‚ she exposes myths‚ noting that the war is not "aimed at ridding the nation of drug ’kingpins’ or big-time drug dealers‚" and the drug war is not "principally concerned with dangerous drugs"
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Logan T. Mckeown Heather L. Jones Writing 101 June 20th‚ 2013 Chapter 1 and 2 Summary What has television done to us? A look back at the eras that led up to the TV generation shows the rise and fall of many communication technologies; the most recent being television. Neil Postman’s book‚ Amusing Ourselves To Death‚ is about the underrated significance of one technology replacing another. Postman accomplishes this by providing perspectives from history‚ touching on technology and waking the
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the result was Freakonomics‚ a book that claims to explore the hidden side of everything‚ using real-life examples such as studies and polls conducted by Levitt to explain how economics is everywhere‚ that economics is how the world really functions. Through everything from analyzing the inner thought processes of real-estate agents and crack dealers‚ to predicting the next popular baby names‚ Levitt and Dubner guide readers to think differently‚ ask questions‚ and to use “Freakonomics” in their daily
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HRM chapter summary Chapter 2 (p. 35-45) The labour market: - Substantial increase in demand for labour reflects economic growth and population growth over the period. In spite of the recessions it continued to grow. - Another way of tracking growth in demand for labour‚ is looking at the total number of jobs. This figure can be high because of jobs held by people over the retirement age and those who have two or more part-time jobs. - What sort of skills are employers looking for? => long-term
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Chapter 8 Summary In Neil Postman’s book‚ Amusing Ourselves to Death‚ he attempts to persuade Americans that television is changing every aspect of our culture and world. In chapter 8‚ Shuffle Off to Bethlehem‚ Postman uses three arguing styles very well: ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ which help him push the reader‚ specifically televised religion viewers and churchgoers‚ to believe that televised religion is not a replacement for religion. Throughout the chapter‚ Postman creates the feeling of guilt
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