Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything (page 3)
In which this book's central idea is set forth: namely if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.
Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong ... How "experts" - from criminologists to real estate agents to political scientists - bend the facts ... Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life ... What is "Freakonomics" anyway?
In which this book's central idea is set forth: namely if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.
Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong ... How "experts" - from criminologists to real estate agents to political scientists - bend the facts ... Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life ... What is "Freakonomics" anyway?
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