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Freakonomics: Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta | Stephen J. Dubner | un libro sin "tema unificador"

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	Freakonomics: Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta Stephen J. Dubner Ediciones B, 2006 - 237 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side of everything, from violent crime, parenting, and baby names to the Ku Klux Klan and real estate, demonstrating how economics isn't just about numbers, but a study of incentives?how people get what they need and want when others need and want the same thing. Comprobando que el estudio de la economía puede explicar como se relacionan fenómenos distintos, este bestseller internacional establece una nueva manera de ver al mundo. Los autores explican el lado escondido de todo, desde crímenes violentos y nombres de bebes hasta el Ku Klux Klan y bienes raíces, demostrando que el estudio de la economía es un estudio de los incentivos: el modo en que las personas obtienen lo que desean o necesitan, especialmente cuando otras personas desean o necesitan lo mismo.

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Excellent read - Inspired thinking

The basic premise of this book is that statistical analysis in the service of micro-economics can be used to illuminate how people actually behave. (This is distinct from the related question of how people ought to be behave, which properly belongs in the realm of ethics or, more dubiously, religion and politics.) In a world that is increasingly divided into murderous factions fueled by absurd beliefs based on centuries-old "wisdom", this book is a breath of fresh air, and its empirical approach to everyday life would do much good, if adopted by world leaders.

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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.

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 eddies. Basically the chapters are a mixed bag. Some are pretty good. Some could easily have been left out, because they just weren't so well done and seem unfocused. They fit together to make a bunch of stand-alone articles, not a single whole book.

Almost any chapter from this book would be good to read. On the other hand, hearing about any one chapter is probably going to raise your expectations. If you like the snippets you hear, then buying the book will get you a heap of those snippets. If you are cool with that then go for it.

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