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Freakonomics
by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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Binding: Perfect Paperback
EAN: 9780061242700
ISBN: 0061242705
Label: Harper Collins
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Harper Collins
Sales Rank: 664620
Studio: Harper Collins

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- fascinating
A great read with a variety of fascinating topics examined. Data is presented quite objectively, and users can draw own conclusions as to causality (though some possible hypotheses are presented).

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- Un interesante enfoque económico
La primera parte del libro. La visión de Levitt - que Dubner se encarga de plasmar en palabras - del mundo actual es sorprendente, y uno se encuentra con un libro muy alejado de las interminables cifras y estadísticas que harían de cualquier libro de economía un desafio. De hecho, las curiosas preguntas que plantea acerca de la sociedad permiten obtener conclusiones sorprendentes que de otro modo hubieran sido impensables.
Ejemplos cómo el que la legalización del aborto en EEUU permitió que repentinamente - y pese a que todos los analistas preveían lo contrario - se redujera drásticamente el crimen en los años 90 en este pais es un ejemplo de los interesantes enfoques que Levitt afronta en este libro.
Sin embargo, aún asi los autores se desinflan con largas diatribas en las que reinciden una vez sobre la misma idea y en el que existe un fallo fundamental para el lector no estadounidense: las ... Read More

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- un libro sin "tema unificador"
el sr levitt escribe un libro en el que se pretende no tener un tema unificador, como prodría ser algún tópico de microeconomia o de calculo financiero. Pero el enfoque dado en el texto tiende a favorecer un analisis de diversas situaciones que ocurren en las sociedades desde el punto de vista de hechos verificables, a la luz de los datos confiables, y de un pensamiento no aprisionado bajo algún estereotipo fijado de antemano sino aquel de refutar las creencias populares convencionales.

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- Not the sum of its parts
Let me preface this by saying how psyched I was to read this. Copies at the library were perpetually checked out so when I finally planned ahead and got it on hold I had some anticipation going. This wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't the sum of it's parts.

Each chapter goes into an interesting article on some topic. The best of these for me was the analysis of race and trends in baby names. Something like a third of black babies in California have a name that no other baby in the state has. White babies tend to have the same names as one another. One of the more blah chapters for me was about how the crime drop in the 90s was a result of abortion being legalized. The authors show coorellation but crime is very complex, and the treatment so brief that this seems political and not deep at all. Politics isn't taboo at all, but here it seems to be driving the authors and that doesn't lead to fun interesting ... Read More

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