Economic influences shape our daily lives both overtly and in more subtle ways. Oddly, the subject is often viewed as arcane and unknowable.
I'm always glad to see good books like Freakonomics, or Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson demystify this everyday discipline.
Steven D. Levitt is a highly respected, albeit unorthodox professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
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Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who was researching a book about the psychology of money when The New York Times Magazine sent him to interview Levitt.
That interview eventually led to their collaboration on Freakonomics, as well as several related projects.
Dubner summarizes: "As Levitt sees it, economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. His particular gift is the ability to ask such questions."
Freakonomics :
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Amazon Price: $18.45 (as of 07/26/2008)
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I doubt if Levitt and Dubner, or even their mothers would seriously contend that this is "The Best Business Book[s] Known to Mankind (And Beyond)"
But it's pretty good and, hey: "We don't need no stinkin' prizes."
And I get to plug my new Amazon.com's Expert Guides lens...
Levitt & Dubner's 10 Books to Read on Economics
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'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything', the first-time collaboration between young economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, has become an economic phenomenon in itself, shooting up to the top of our bestseller lists on publication and hovering nearby for much of the rest of 2005. The long-term economic study we'd like to see Levitt and Dubner undertake next is of the effect of their clear-eyed and charmingly contrarian book on the number of young men and women choosing to major in economics. We predict a statistically significant rise.
Levitt and Dubner have put together a list for us of the 10 Books to Read About Economics, many of which are as imaginative as they are in using the tools of economics to answer surprising everyday questions. They write, "Here is our list 10 books that concern, sometimes loosely, the field of economics. It is a list that is by no means encyclopedic or authoritative or even representative. But each of the books are well worth reading."
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