like everyone and their mother has been listening to podcasts these days. I’m happily on the board with the whole podcast-craze‚ and if you’re looking for a form of (sometimes) educational entertainment‚ I’d highly suggest checking these out: 1) Freakonomics. This podcast “explores the hidden side of everything”‚ using economics to better explore behaviors‚ history‚ science‚ you name it. I’m sure a lot of you have heard of this podcast before‚ but if you haven’t yet‚ definitely take a listen. Even
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nearly unexplainable by logical methods. Researchers attributed the crime drop to a number of different explanations‚ but most really could not pinpoint one major factor. Abortion up until this point in the history of the US was a largely restricted practice limited to upper class women but with the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973‚ in one fell swoop the US Supreme Court legalized abortion to the entire nation. “[Children] who went unborn in the earliest years of Mohammed 2 legalized
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Justin Rayome Dr. Ditloff International Relations 6 March 2014 Levitt‚ Steven D‚ and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: Harper Collins‚ 2005. Print. The authors of Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ were very clear in the fact that they did not want their book to simply revolve around one single theme‚ thus making it difficult to discern a distinct thesis statement or theory. Some may perceive this type of approach
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book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner uses a number of specific examples to demonstrate the idea that incentive shape society. Although the basis of their argument is generally true‚ how they present their position on each question throughout the book ends up weaken their point. One example of an aspect that harmed Levitt and Dubner’s argument was how they went about making the book more accessible for the average reader. The everyday person who picks up Freakonomics isn’t
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ECON 260 Freakonomics Freakonomics‚ by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ is book that not your typical economist would write it was co-authored in 2005 and if morality represents how we would like the world to work‚ then economics represent how it actually does work in this award-winning book. Steven D. Levitt is a not your typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing and whose conclusions
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CHAPTER 1 In this work‚ the authors argue that studying nursing history provides nursing students with a “sense of professional identity‚ a useful methodological research skill‚ and a context for evaluating information” (Keeling & Ramos‚ 1995). Therefore the purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with a brief overview of the history of American nursing from the middle of the 19th century through present-day nursing practice. Nursing has indeed evolved over the course of more than
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previewing and reading a chapter you will move on to the next step of the reading process which is processing ideas followed by post reading and retaining them. Signposts are visual aids used to assist students in focusing on the main points making an online to reflect on the topic. Beginnings and Endings are organized much like paragraphs and essays with the center focus being divided into topics and subtopics. Connections are reflection done after you preview the chapter‚ link new knowledge to
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Freakonomics The first part of the movie talks about the way real estate agents work and whether their interests are actually aligned with the seller of the property or not. This is confirmed by the data which shows that the homes of real estate agents tend to command a better price than the client’s as the agents hold the property for more days on the market. The agents ask the clients to sell their respective property’s right away because the additional consideration which they get‚ for waiting
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The Hidden Side of Freakonomics Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a book aimed at exposing the secret within everything. The authors prove that in many cases‚ two items don’t have to be connected because they are correlated. Moreover‚ two unrelated items can in fact be connected. Proving so was less difficult than it would seem. All it took was the right information. They were able to prove the most unlikely of correlations. The authors stress that in a world where incentives
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Chapter Summary Chapter seven talked about campaigns‚ elections‚ and the media. The legal qualifications for holding political office are minimal at both the state and local levels‚ but holders of political office still are predominantly white and male are likely to be from the professional class. American political campaigns are lengthy and extremely expensive. In the last decade‚ they have become more candidate centered rather than party centered in response to technological innovations and
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