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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content; some discussion of prostitution economics in data terms
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
No significant psychological distress
What this book is about
Economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner apply economic analysis to unusual questions — why do drug dealers still live with their mothers (the pay structure), how much do real estate agents actually work for you (not much), what really caused the crime drop of the 1990s (a provocative argument), and what names signal future success (none of the ones you'd expect). Freakonomics was a cultural phenomenon when it appeared in 2005 — a book that used data and incentive analysis to show that the world doesn't work the way people assume. Some of its conclusions have been contested since, but the thinking it demonstrated changed how popular nonfiction is written.
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