By Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics sounds like a text on the business structure of rap music. The subtitle is similarly puzzling. What's a "rogue" economist -- one who has stopped taking calls from his CIA handler? Who wears disguises when he sneaks into the library to crunch numbers? Turns out Freakonomics is about the field of behavioral economics, which attempts to combine the pure-logic tools of classical economics with understanding the emotional impulses of human behavior. And the book's principal figure, Steven D. Levitt, is anything but an outsider. Levitt is a chaired professor of economics at the University of Chicago, meaning he sits at the very pinnacle of his profession's establishment. Nothing "rogue" about that.

Published Date: 01/12/2006 Format: PaperBack ISBN: 0-06-124270-5 Publisher: Harper Collins Rating: Retail price: US Dollar $ 7.99 (Rs. 571.60) Our price: Rs. 395.00 You Save: Rs. 176.60 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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