Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
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Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2005
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by -, 2005
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Published by Allen Lane, 2005
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by Allen Lane, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Published by William Morrow, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Condition: Very Good+. Wall Street Journal 'Freakonomics reads like a detective novel . has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Sunday Telegraph 'A sensation . you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?'.
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
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Softcover (with flaps). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. an exclamatory note: Â in which the origins of this book are clarified, introduction by authors, notes, acknowledgements and index. Colour illustrated binding with orange and dark red coloured titles to the front panel and white, dark red and pale orange coloured titles to the back strip. A book that reveals that by " . Unravelling your life's secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world." -- from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges and of the panels. Sunning to the left hand edge of the front panel, verso of the covers and to the left hand edge of the pages to page 6. Sunning of the text block edges and there is browning to the book edges along with some age toning. Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. 242 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Economics; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 071399908X. ISBN/EAN: 9780713999082. Inventory No: 0287963.
Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
Paperback. In Freakonomics Steven Levitt asks a series of provocative and profound questions about contemporary living and helps us to see the familiar world through a completely original lens. He examines everything from education to traffic jams, from food to guns, from sports to getting elected, from betting to parenting, pushing back the boundaries of economics along the way. Levitt turns conventional economics on its head, stripping away the jargon and calculations of the âexpertsâ to explore the riddles of everyday life. He reaches some astonishing conclusions, showing us that Freakonomics is all about how people get what they want. Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin. The culprit was crime. It had been rising relentlesslyâ"a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profileâ"and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it. Death by gunfire, intentional and otherwise, had become commonplace. So too had carjacking and crack dealing, robbery and rape. Violent crime was a gruesome, constant companion. And things were about to get even worse. Much worse. All the experts were saying so. The cause was the so-called superpredator. For a time, he was everywhere. Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies. Swaggering his way through foot-thick government reports. He was a scrawny, big-city teenager with a cheap gun in his hand and nothing in his heart but ruthlessness. There were thousands out there just like him, we were told, a generation of killers about to hurl the country into deepest chaos. In 1995 the criminologist James Alan Fox wrote a report for the U.S. attorney general that grimly detailed the coming spike in murders by teenagers. Fox proposed optimistic and pessimistic scenarios. In the optimistic scenario, he believed, the rate of teen homicides would rise another 15 percent over the next decade; in the pessimistic scenario, it would more than double. âThe next crime wave will get so bad,â he said, âthat it will make 1995 look like the good old days.â Other criminologists, political scientists, and similarly learned forecasters laid out the same horrible future, as did President Clinton. âWe know we've got about six years to turn this juvenile crime thing around,â Clinton said, âor our country is going to be living with chaos. And my successors will not be giving speeches about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they'll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.â The smart money was plainly on the criminals. And then, instead of going up and up and up, crime began to fall. And fall and fall and fall some more. The crime drop was startling in several respects. It was ubiquitous, with every category of crime falling in every part of the country. It was persistent, with incremental decreases year after year. And it was entirely unanticipatedâ"especially by the very experts who had been predicting the opposite. The magnitude of the reversal was astounding. The teenage murder rate, instead of rising 100 percent or even 15 percent as James Alan Fox had warned, fell more than 50 percent within five years. By 2000 the overall murder rate in the United States had dropped to its lowest level in thirty-five years. So had the rate of just about every other sort of crime, from assault to car theft. Even though the experts had failed to anticipate the crime dropâ" which was in fact well under way even as they made their horrifying predictionsâ"they now hurried to explain it. Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical. It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime. It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said. It was the sort of innovative policing strategies put into place in New York City, where murders would fall from 2,245 in 1990 to 596 in 2003. These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives. If it was gun control and clever police strategies and better-paying jobs that quelled crimeâ"well then, the power to stop criminals had been within our reach all along. As it would be the next time, God forbid, that crime got so bad. These theories made their way, seemingly without question, from the experts' mouths to journalists' ears to the public's mind. In short course, they became conventional wisdom. There was only one problem: they weren't true. There was another factor, meanwhile, that had greatly contributed to the massive crime drop of the 1990s. It had taken shape more than twenty years earlier and concerned a young woman in Dallas named Norma McCorvey. Like the proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings on one continent and eventually causes a hurricane on another, Norma McCorvey dramatically altered the course of events without intending to. All she had wanted was an abortion. She was a poor, uneducated, unskilled, alcoholic, drug-using twenty-one-year-old woman who had already given up two children for adoption and now, in 1970, found herself pregnant again. But in Texas, as in all but a few states at that time, abortion was illegal. McCorveyâs cause came to be adopted by people far more powerful than she. They made her the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion. The defendant was Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney. The case ultimately made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, by which time McCorveyâs name had been disguised as Jane Roe. On January 22, 1973, the court ruled in favor of Ms. Roe, allowing legalized abortion throughout the country. By this time, of course, it was far too late for Ms. McCorvey/Roe to have her abortion. She had given birth and put the child up for adoption. (Years later she would renounce her.
Published by Penguin, Camberwell, Vic, Australia, 2005
ISBN 10: 071399908X ISBN 13: 9780713999082
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has been covered in a clear plastic protective cover and has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. The front endpaper has a name inscription from a previous owner. 242 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).