Think like a freak: how to think smarter about almost everything
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xi, 268 p. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781846147890 1846147891 |
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Autor: Levitt, Steven D
Jahr: 2014
Contents
1. What Does It Mean to Think Like a Freak? 1
An endless supply of fascinating questions... 77ie
pros and cons of breast-feeding, fracking, and virtual
currencies... There is no magic Freakonomics tool...
Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that
linger... How to win the World Cup... Private bene-
fits vs. the greater good... Thinking with a different set
of muscles... Are married people happy or do happy
people marry?... Get famous by thinking just once or
twice a week... Our disastrous meeting with the future
prime minister.
2. The Three Hardest Words in the English Language 19
Why is I don t know so hard to say?... Sure, kids make
up answers but why do we?... Who believes in the
devil?... And who believes 9/11 was an inside job?...
Entrepreneurs of error ... Why measuring cause-
and-effect is so hard... The folly of prediction ... Are
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your predictions better than a dart-throwing chimp?...
The Internet s economic impact will be no greater than
the fax machine s ... Ultracrepidarianism ... The
cost of pretending to know more than you do ... How
should bad predictions be punished?... The Romanian
witch hunt... The first step in solving problems: put
away your moral compass... Why suicide rises with
quality of life-and how little we know about suicide...
Feedback is the key to all learning ... How bad were the
first loaves of bread?... Don t leave experimentation to
the scientists... Does more expensive wine taste better?
3. What s Your Problem? 49
If you ask the wrong question, you ll surely get the
wrong answer... What does school reform really
mean?... Why do American kids know less than kids
from Estonia?... Maybe it s the parents fault!... The
amazing true story ofTakeru Kobayashi, hot~dog-eating
champion...Fifty hot dogs in twelve minutes!.. .So
how did he do it?... And why was he so much better
than everyone else?.. . To eat quickly is not very good
manners ... The Solomon Method... Endless exper-
imentation in pursuit of excellence ... Arrested!...
How to redefine the problem you are trying to solve ...
The brain is the critical organ... How to ignore artifi-
cial barriers... Can you do 20 push-ups?
4. Like a Bad Dye Job, the Truth Is in the Roots 65
A bucket of cash will not cure poverty and a planeload of
food will not cure famine... How to find the root cause
of a problem... Revisiting the abortion-crime link...
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What does Martin Luther have to do with the German
economy?... How the Scramble for Africa created
lasting strife... Why did slave traders lick the skin
of the slaves they bought?... Medicine vs. folklore...
Consider the ulcer... The first blockbuster drugs...
Why did the young doctor swallow a batch of dangerous
bacteria?... Talk about gastric upset!... TTie universe
that lives in our gut... The power of poop.
5. Think Like a Child 87
How to have good ideas... The power of thinking
small... Smarter kids at $15 a pop... Don t be afraid
of the obvious... 1.6 million of anything is a lot...
Don t be seduced by complexity... What to look for in
a junkyard... The human body is just a machine...
Freaks just want to have fun .. .It is hard to get good
at something you don t like.. .Isa no-lose lottery the
answer to our low savings rate?... Gambling meets
charity... Why kids figure out magic tricks better
than adults... You d think scientists would be hard to
dupe ... How to smuggle childlike instincts across the
adult border.
6. Like Giving Candy to a Baby 105
It s the incentives, stupid!... A girl, a bag of candy,
and a toilet... What financial incentives can and can t
do... The giant milk necklace... Cash for grades...
With financial incentives, size matters ... How to de-
termine someone s true incentives... Riding the herd
mentality ... Why are moral incentives so weak?...
Let s steal some petrified wood!... One of the most rad-
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ical ideas in the history of philanthropy... The most
dysfunctional $300 billion industry in the world ... A
one-night stand for charitable donors... How to change
the frame of a relationship... Ping-Pong diplomacy
and selling shoes... You guys are just the best! ...
The customer is a human wallet... When incentives
backfire... The cobra effect ... Why treating people
with decency is a good idea.
7. What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth
Have in Common? 137
A pair of nice, Jewish, game-theory-loving boys...
Fetch me a sword! ... What the brown M M s were
really about... Teach your garden to weed itself...
Did medieval ordeals of boiling water really work?...
You too can play God once in a while... Why are college
applications so much longer than job applications?...
Zappos and The Offer ... The secret bullet factory s
warm-beer alarm ... Why do Nigerian scammers say
they are from Nigeria?... The cost of false alarms
and other false positives... Will all the gullible people
please come forward?... How to trick a terrorist into
letting you know he s a terrorist.
8. How to Persuade People Who Don t Want to
Be Persuaded 167
First, understand how hard this will be... Why are
better-educated people more extremist?... Logic and
fact are no match for ideology... The consumer has
the only vote that counts... Don t pretend your argu-
ment is perfect... How many lives would a driverless
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car save?... Keep the insults to yourself... Why you
should tell stories... 7s eating fat really so bad?... The
Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure... What is the Bible
about ?... The Ten Commandments versus The Brady
Bunch.
9. The Upside of Quitting 189
Winston Churchill was right-and wrong ... The sunk-
cost fallacy and opportunity cost... You can t solve to-
morrow s problem if you won t abandon today s dud...
Celebrating failure with a party and cake... Why the
flagship Chinese store did not open on time... Were
the Challenger s O-rings bound to fail?... Learn how
you might fail without going to the trouble of failing ...
77ie $1 million question: when to struggle and when to
quit ... Wouldyouleta coin toss decide yourfuture?...
Should I quit the Mormon faith? ... Growing a beard
will not make you happy... But ditching your girl-
friend might... Why Dubner and Levitt are so fond of
quitting... This whole book was about letting go ...
And now it s your turn.
Acknowledgments 213
Notes 215
Index 255
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