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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 242 Seiten
  • Verlag: B&T (Mai 2005)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 006073132X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060731328
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

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Starred Review. Forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates: Levitt focuses his attention on more intimate real-world issues, like whether reading to your baby will make her a better student. Recognition by fellow economists as one of the best young minds in his field led to a profile in the New York Times, written by Dubner, and that original article serves as a broad outline for an expanded look at Levitt's search for the hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior. There isn't really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the suggestion that self-styled experts have a vested interest in promoting conventional wisdom even when it's wrong. Instead, Dubner and Levitt deconstruct everything from the organizational structure of drug-dealing gangs to baby-naming patterns. While some chapters might seem frivolous, others touch on more serious issues, including a detailed look at Levitt's controversial linkage between the legalization of abortion and a reduced crime rate two decades later. Underlying all these research subjects is a belief that complex phenomena can be understood if we find the right perspective. Levitt has a knack for making that principle relevant to our daily lives, which could make this book a hit. Malcolm Gladwell blurbs that Levitt "has the most interesting mind in America," an invitation Gladwell's own substantial fan base will find hard to resist. 50-city radio campaign. (May 1)
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5.0 von 5 Sternen astonishing answers to unusual questions, 11. Februar 2007
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The Introduction of this book is called: "The Hidden Side of Everything". And this is the programme of the book. Steven D. Levitt, a famous economist, gives unusual answers to seemingly bizarre questions: "What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?" "How is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?" Or: "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms" (in spite of their apparently high income)? Together with the journalist Stephen J. Dubner whom he got to know through his columns for the New York Times Magazine, he gathers all these strange answers in a book. In fact it is a highly interesting book that might interest every reader who is not satisfied with the first solution for a problem. That means a reader who is keen to find "The Hidden Side of Everything". So it is not a typical book for economists.
For example, the author pretends that the enormous drop in the American crime rate is not a result of modern police strategies but of the legalisation of abortion in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. As a consequence, unwanted children with a higher risk to become a criminal, were not born anymore. A thesis hard to accept but convincingly proved by the author.
Furthermore, the reader learns how the Crack Mafia in the States is organised (as a highly profitable company) or how he can guess the mother's income and the colour of her skin by knowing her child's name.
But why does the author pretend, although all scientific studies say the opposite, that long prison terms and the capital punishment have got a deterrent effect on future criminals? Even if he does not affirm that a great decline in crimes is a result of capital punishment, he does not point out its negative aspects resolutely enough.
All in all, you will have a very interesting book in your hands that incites you either to laugh or to reflect. Very often you will only be perplexed: Is it really possible that ...?
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4.0 von 5 Sternen Interessante Lektüre mit überraschenden Einsichten, 6. Juni 2005
Der Titel des Buches ist schon ein wenig dämlich. Ansonsten ist "Freakonomics" aber ein interessant geschriebenes Buch mit zum Teil überraschenden Einsichten.

Einige der Thesen sind natürlich gerade in den USA sehr kontrovers, auf der anderen Seite bemüht sich der Autor schon, diese mit belastbaren Daten zu hinterlegen.

Mein Lieblingskapitel war das, welches beschreibt warum Drogenhändler meist noch zuhause wohnen. Es beschreibt nicht nur sehr schlüssig, warum dies so ist, sondern gibt auch beeidruckende Einblicke, wie mutige junge Forscher abseits des Establishments an Ihre Informationen kommen.

Zwei Dinge haben mich an dem Buch gestört: einmal die etwas aufdringlichen Lobeshymnen zwischen den Kapiteln, die irgendwelchen Zeitungsartikeln entnommen wurden. Und zum anderen, dass teilweise doch etwas umfängliche Daten abgedruckt wurden. Man könnte das Seitenschinden nennen.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Multiple-Regression Statistical Analysis Put on an Easy-to-Understand Pedestal, 30. Januar 2007
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Ask most people if they want to understand statistics . . . and they run in the opposite direction. That's too bad because these days anyone who can run a personal computer can perform sophisticated statistical analysis using relatively affordable software like SPSS. Freakonomics may open a few minds by showing that much of what the conventional wisdom is . . . is wrong.

Economics has been traditionally focused on writing equations to explain "how things should work" assuming that nothing else changes. That's the rub. Everything else does change . . . and the theories don't work in practice. You've all heard the resulting economist jokes.

Steven Levitt does something that academics don't like anyone to do: He looks for interesting, practical questions and devises simple, straightforward solutions.

His method is usually pretty simple. He looks for patterns by using regression programs and then thinks about what the regressions might mean. That often leads to a trip to some other data, and eventually the correct cause-and-effect pattern emerges. It's like the invention methods of champion tinkerer Thomas A. Edison. Keep trying until something practical works. Fortunately, with today's computers you don't have to wait very long. The biggest challenges are in finding the right data sets, as this book shows through its example of why drug dealers usually live with their mothers.

The book indicts the media and many so-called experts who simply haven't done their homework. As a result, you can spend a lot of time being misinformed by reading the latest Congressional testimony, the latest think-tank study or by watching a talking head debate on television. The lesson: Be skeptical unless you see the data and the analyses, as they are displayed in this book's few examples.

In the book, you will find out how statistics can identify some of those who cheat (whether they are teachers or sumo wrestlers) and how economic incentives slant behavior (how real estate brokers sell their own property versus selling yours). You will encounter a novel argument that Roe v. Wade has reduced the violent crime rate. You'll find an even more interesting argument about how to equate the value of reduced crime to the cost of abortions.

More favorably, there are case studies on how accurate information trumps bad or misleading information to the benefit of us all.

The book ends up on a largely unsatisfying statistical look at nature versus nurture . . . and pretty much dismisses nurture when it comes to child-raising.

So it's a grab bag of topics, mixed with lots of hero worship (by co-author Stephen J. Dubner for co-author Steven D. Levitt).

Why is this book selling so well? I couldn't figure it out. It doesn't have the elegance and relevance of The Tipping Point. It's about statistics, and hardly anyone wants to read about that.

So I asked my wife and younger daughter. They both knew the book was a best seller (obviously it has good media play). They both loved the cover . . . especially the illustration of an apple that when you cut into it reveals an orange. They also liked the title (both finding economics pretty freaky). I nominate whoever came up with that cover concept and title for the best "you can't tell a book by its cover" award for 2005.

So what does Freakonomics have to do with apples and oranges? As best I can tell, Freakonomics has very little to do with those fruits in a literal sense. The metaphor seems to be intended to be applied in two ways: First, you have to compare apples and oranges to the right reference to understand what you are examining; and second, sometimes the cause of something comes from an unexpected source when we peel back the skin of surface reality. If you want more, I discuss some applications of the book in my blog posting for today.

If you already like and know statistics, you can read Professor Levitt's articles instead of this book. If you like "gee whiz" facts about things you don't know much about, this book is for you.
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4.0 von 5 Sternen Good entertainment - not just for statistics students
I bought the book because a stat. Prof. recommended it before my first stat course. It cannot replace basic statistics, but it is entertaining. Lesen Sie weiter...
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2.0 von 5 Sternen Etwas andere Einblicke in die Wirtschaftswissenschaft
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Multiple-Regression Statistical Analysis Put on an Easy-to-Understand Pedestal
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Multiple-Regression Statistical Analysis Put on an Easy-to-Understand Pedestal
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