Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Hardcover, 242 pages

English language

Published May 23, 2005 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-073132-8
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this …

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En voyant la foule de 5 étoiles accordées à ce livre par mes connaissances j'avoue que je m'attendais à quelque chose de beaucoup plus marquant. Au final si la réflexion est intéressante et incite à regarder certains faits de société de manière plus approfondie (et à payer attention à ce que l'on fait corréler parfois de façon inexacte), plusieurs points m'ont dérangés dans ce livre :

- Le manque de référence hors Levitt, où je me questionne beaucoup tant sur la méthodologie que sur l'objectivité. Même si certains points sont intéressants, il devient dur de ne pas douter
- La vision anti experts. Que l'on ait du mal à croire véritablement un agent immobilier passe, que ce climat de scepticisme s'étende à tous les experts... et l'on se ramasse des antivaxxs en pagaille
- La façon dont le livre est rédigé qui tient plus d'une adoration de Levitt qu'autre chose …

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