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Freakonomics

by Steven Levitt
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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
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    Irrational Behavior, Experts, and “Conventional Wisdom”
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    Nature vs. Nurture
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At several points in the book, Dubner and Levitt bring up a “hypothetical” situation concerning two children, one white, the other black. The white child is raised in a nice part of Chicago, has two…

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