Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Audiobook

In the Freakonomics audiobook, learn:

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from parenting and sports to cheating and crime—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head.

Freakonomics (audiobook) is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Dubner, award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, the truth about real estate agents, and much more.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they both show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and-if the right questions are asked-is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a 1000 cocktail parties. But it can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.