Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner

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Assume nothing, question everything.

This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.

'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell

'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph

'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal

'Dazzling ... a delight' Economist

'Made me laugh out loud' Scotland on Sunday

  • ISBN10 0141019018
  • ISBN13 9780141019017
  • Publish Date 6 April 2006 (first published 12 April 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 8 February 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 336
  • Language English