We are accustomed to perceiving economics as a boring and precise discipline that primarily describes commodity-money relations.
We are accustomed to perceiving economics as a boring and precise discipline that primarily describes commodity-money relations. American Stephen Levitt, one of the most famous economists of our time, is convinced of the opposite: economics is the science of subtle and non-obvious relationships that underlie any society. What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? What economic laws does the drug mafia live by? How does the upbringing received in the family affect the life of teenagers? In answering these and other seemingly strange questions, Levitt and his co-author, New York Times journalist Steven Dubner, expose the hidden mechanisms of the most important social processes of our time and force the reader to look at familiar things from a dizzyingly unusual angle.
Williams, 288 p.