Essays on Freakonomics

Freakonomics. What kind of name is that for an entrepreneurship book? It sounds like a joke. I chose this book for the same reason I chose the other two I have written essays about: I received it as a gift. Unfortunately, this was the last…

The book Freakonomics written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, is a novel written with a purpose to examine life’s oddities with the tools of economics. The third chapter of this book is entitled “Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms”, and the…

There are no two people who view the world exactly the same, and with that being said, we want people to view the world the way we do; persuading one another to see what we see. There are multiple sides to everything. As you may…

This paper will serve as a response to the book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Levitt, an economist, and Dubner, a writer, teamed up to write this book to initiate unique thinking about the world today. The book covers a wide…

My initial response when we were told our summer reading book was called Freakonomics, was: great, I will not understand what I read nor I will care. However, as I kept reading, I soon realized the book wasn’t just a typical economist throwing numbers at…

In the first chapter, the authors claim that there the world is driven by incentives. They begin by introducing an example with an unexpected outcome: a day care center that begins fining parents that are late to pick up their children. Surprisingly, the number of…

In Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s non fiction work, Freakonomics, the underlying argument throughout the text revolves around misconstrued facts. The authors challenge with discourse over various subjects with a tone that’s subtle yet slightly sarcastic. They tactfully use the rhetorical modes of…