Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, 2005
An economist’s case that the world is stranger than it looks: cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers, and why a backyard pool is more dangerous than a gun.
Steven D. Levitt
Levitt won the John Bates Clark Medal in 2003; the book grew out of a New York Times Magazine profile of him by co-author Stephen J. Dubner.
Feels like curiosity, wonder and time.
What a lottery ticket and a vote actually buy you.
After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it’s fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you’d spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy. Books by Steven D. Levitt
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