Recommandation

    I would recommand this book to just about anyone. Mrs.West recommanded this book to our class and now I'm recommanding this book to any of my followers because this is a great book, easy to understand, and you will be outstanded this these facts they come up with.

Summarization

       This book looks at the world and how it works, in many different ways. They ask many questions that normal economists would even think of asking. For example, "Which is more dangerous a gun or a swimming pool." This is true which is more dangerous, both can kill people, the Levitt makes a great explanation. This book is about unbelievable facts like cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing realators, and crack selling mama boys. Its is a very interesting book about werid every day facts that you just would even think about.

Best Chapter

The best chapter in the book in actually chapter one. Others would be surprised because they would think would get better in the middle or towards the end, but I loved the first chapter. The first chapter talked about how schoolteacher and sumo wrestlers have many things in common and how not matter what or how, everyone cheats. In the first chapter, Lavitt made many interesting points about life that I would never of thought of; And I believe many people never would of thought of it too. The first chapter really made interested in the book and  I guess that is why it is my favorite.

Tone is very important!

The first page of chapter one is very insteresting and I believe that is the tone of voice he was looking for. He wanted a interested type of voice to pull the reader into the story and get interested with him. If the reader isn't interested by the first chapter then they won't want to keep reading.

Colorado Adoption Project

       The Colorado Adoption Project is about if biological parents are important in raising a child. They explain that is how the parents act towards the child will depend how that child grows up but that isn't true. For example, " You don't have to believe in obessive parenting to think that the second boy doesn't have a chance and that the first boy has it made. What are the odds that the second boy, with the adds of handicap racial discrmination, will turn out to lead a productive life? What are the odds the first boy, so deftly primed for sucess, will somehow fail? And how much of this faith should each boys attribute to his parents?" Right here helps explaint that is doesn't matter what color the child is, where he/she grew up, if he/she was adopted, or how the parents treated them, the childs future depends on their actions only.

The Title

This book is called Freakonomics because the whole book is about werid statistics that are true in everyday life. So the "Freak" comes from the werid statistics they came up with and the "Onomics" comes from the authors because they are economists.

Author Information

Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner together, wrote the book Freakonomics.

     Steven Levitt went to Univerisity of Chicago, where he directed the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. He was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World.” Levitt received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1989, his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1994, and has taught at Chicago since 1997.

      Steven Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. Steven Dubner has taught English at Columbia University (while receiving an M.F.A. there), played in a rock band (which started at Appalachian State University, where he was an undergrad, and was later signed to Arista Records), and, as a writer, was first published at the age of 11, in Highlights for Children.

My MLA Format

Levitt, Steven and Dubner, Stephan. Freakonomics. William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 Original edition. August 25, 2009

Freakonomics

I decided to read this book because it sounded interesting to read. I would like to find out the riddels of everyday life and why he believes this. I have heard good recommandations and I'm excited to read it!

First Post Ever

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