Levitt, Steven D.
Summary: The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what drives the economy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330 LEVLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: This full-color illustrated and expanded edition of the "New York Times" bestseller adds a visual, superfreaky dimension to the already provocative thinking that made "Freakonomics" and "SuperFreakonomics" part of the national zeitgeist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: 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? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask--but Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the stuff and riddles of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 330 LEVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 LEVLevitt, Steven D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006