Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Bys: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?

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 riddles of everyday...

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0061722898
• ISBN13: 9780061234002
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.1"