Forget your image of an economist as a crusty professor worried about fluctuating interest rates: Levitt focuses his attention on more intimate real-world issues, like whether reading to your baby will make her a better student. Recognition by fellow economists as one of the best young minds in his field led to a profile in the New York Times, written by Dubner, and that original article serves as a broad outline for an expanded look at Levitt's search for the hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior. There isn't really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the suggestion that self-styled experts have a vested interest in promoting conventional wisdom even when it's wrong.
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I thought I had this book, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe I just thought I had it! I won a gift certificate to Borders at Bunko last night, so I guess I will put it to good use!
I found the Books-on-CD at the library. We're going to listen to this as we paint our bedroom.
Whoa! This is a really good book.
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