Want to be part of an episode of freakonomics radio. How our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything is the debut nonfiction book by university of chicago economist steven levitt and new york times journalist stephen j. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything p. Check out our revolutionary sidebyside summary and analysis. The book drunk tank pink says your name does matter on your. The book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. Levitt and dubner wrote freakonomics, a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, selfdealing realtors, and crackselling mamas boys. Ten years ago, the authors of the popeconomics book freakonomics made some bold predictions. Reading this book in a high school econ class was helpful in my opinion and.
A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything is the debut nonfiction book by university of chicago economist steven levitt and. Levitt, is a book on modern economics that provides key insight into our society as well as clarifying the difference between causation and connectivity, and discussing situations were people have confused the two. These are the sort of questions raisedand answeredin the new book freakonomics. Glenn crytzer and his syncopators, witching hour blues from harlem mad.
The episode draws from a freakonomics chapter called a roshanda by any other name and. We are accepting applications and classes are ongoing. So you might think that names make a big difference. The new york times bestselling freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than 4 million copies in 35 languages, and changing the way we look at the world. Dubner followed it up withsuperfreakonomics, a freakquel that hardcore fans and newcomers alike have found to be even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.
The whole chapter on baby names really dragged on and was difficult to keep. Were working on a podcast about names and we want to hear from readers and listeners about their own names common ones, unusual ones, everything in between. We did not want our child to be one of 4 emmas in her class or our. How do parents of different races and classes choose names for their. Or, would a roshanda by any other name smell as sweet. They had analyzed names and income among a sample of californians, and come up with a class based theory of baby name trends. In a paper called the causes and consequences of distinctively black names, levitt and roland fryer argue that a first name doesnt seem to affect a persons economic life at all. Names do, however, reveal a lot about the people doing the naming.
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