Book Titles

Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

By Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0063032378
Categories: Economy, Studies, Success

26 Quotes Found

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Freakonomics:

…study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.

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Freakonomics:

Growing up in a single-parent home roughly doubles a child’s propensity to commit crime. So does having a teenage mother.

139

Freakonomics:

An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

149

Freakonomics:

No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent.

149

Freakonomics:

…most of us are… terrible risk assessors.

150

Freakonomics:

…motivation is probably a stronger indicator of success than, well, a name.

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