- Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
- What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
- How much do parents really matter?
- Has your name any influence on your career opportunities?
- What has nylon stockings in common with crack cocaine?
- Why did the crime rate in America fell in 1990s? Has the legalization of abortion to do anything with that?
- What is information asymmetry and experts use it to their advantage?
- How the Internet has reduced the information asymmetry by giving information to the customers, thus improving their negotiating power?
If you want answers to these and more interesting questions, you should read Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner 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.
