内容简介
How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And we can use it to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life. This cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life’s secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.
目 录
AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarfied
PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
INTRODUCTION:THE Hidden Side of Everything
1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?
3. Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?
4. Where Hava All the Criminals Gone?
5. What Makes a Perfect Parent?
6. Perfect Parenting,Part II;or Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
EPILOGUE:TWO Paths to Harvard
In which the dependability of data meets the randomness of life
Bonus Material Added to the Revised and Expanded 2006 Edition
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index