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- Movie Review: "Freakonomics" (2010), with Steven Levitt and Stephen DubnerIn the musty, data filled world of economics, two authors try to make number crunching interesting by examining things that really no one cares about. A fascinating examination about data sets.
- Chapter Summary of FreakonomicsA chapter by chapter summary of the book Freakonomics
- Freakonomics on FilmFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book recently made into a documentary movie due to be released during the Fall of 2010.
- An Analysis of FreakonomicsI was under the impression that we had advanced beyond this kind of Neanderthal thinking, but I guess not.
- Review Of: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingThe only theme in Freakonomics is that there is no common theme, and is more a book about questions than answers.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven LevittAs Levitt sees it, Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. And his particular ability is that he is unafraid of asking such questions...- Freakologic: The Flawed Logic of Freakonomics?A summary of what is wrong with the logic of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
- Book Review: Freakonomics -- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. DubnerEvery now and again there comes a book that so challenges your conventional ways of thinking, that so entertains the ideas that things aren't anywhere near as black and white as experts and leading authorities make them out to be, that it can't but capture the public...
- If You Question Anything, Read FreakonomicsFreakonomics is a book that every American adult simply must read. Perhaps it seems a bit presumptuous of me, but the insight provided by authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner will completely change the way in which you look at the world.
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Law Five: Meaningful Performance Targets Are Mission CriticalToo often, business leaders mistake goals for performance targets...- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. DubnerWhat's a rogue economist? Someone who says of himself, "I'm not good at math, I don't know a lot of econometrics, and I also don't know how how to do theory." But he can look at the way the world works with the tools of an economist and illuminate it.
