There is also bonus material at the back, consisting of Dubner’s original profile of Levitt together with some articles and blog posts that they wrote. The corrections are highlighted in a foreword and mainly relate to the questions about Stetson Kennedy’s role in publishing Klu Klux Klan secrets and the extent to which he overstated his involvement. In the 2006 revision, Levitt and Dubner make some corrections of material that had come to light following publication of the first edition. A further revision was published in 2020 and I want to make clear that this may address some of the questions/concerns I had about this book. I read the revised version of FREAKONOMICS that was published in 2006. It’s a page-turning read that tells a good story but some of the statistics are questionable and its reliance on racial assumptions very telling. This book resulted from a profile that Dubner wrote on Levitt and was a phenomenon when first published in 2005, offering explanations for a variety of questions.
Dubner is a writer for the New York Times and The New Yorker. Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. Dubner from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. From how your name affects how successful you are, to why drug dealers live with their mothers (and the unexpected links between estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan), this book unravels the secret codes behind, well … everything. Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics is the cult hit that turns economics on its head, using surprising information about the world to understand what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life.
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