Superfreakonomics a Personal Review
About The Book.
“One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences” (Levitt, S. 2009) This is one of the primarily premises that the book establishes, with an extraordinary sense of humor and interesting data, Steven and Stephen set us in the real economics world, in which the common factors that all the teachers show to their students are applied in such a way that the real job is getting done. The way the authors write all the interesting facts of today´s modern life, including correct and simple explanations, so that anyone can understand all the topics without having doubts of the concepts and of the more difficult topics of economy. The examples they give provide us a fun way of learning, and of expanding our thoughts far beyond the theory of economics. Throughout the book, we are exposed to historical, political and sociocultural aspects of the example given, not only to give the reader a complete background, but also to make the reader get involved into the facts that are exposed. This book also give us a chance to be reflexive about almost every aspect that we normally do not bother to think of, for instance, the ordinary task of donate money, rather than be a real help to others, people use donations to make them feel more comfortable with themselves, for recognition from the local newspaper or from that cute girl that asked us a coin for any purpose.
Superfreakonomics stands for the unusual way of making money and manage all the different aspects of all the topics that can be directed to produce money. As the authors said, in the book there are discussed awkward subjects, and not afraid to be revealing, the whole book is specially designed to generate discussion among the economics academics, without being partisan about it. Applying statistical data, the authors give substantial information that supports their theories by applying economic principles, this is sometimes disturbing, and in some cases the theories
“One of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences” (Levitt, S. 2009) This is one of the primarily premises that the book establishes, with an extraordinary sense of humor and interesting data, Steven and Stephen set us in the real economics world, in which the common factors that all the teachers show to their students are applied in such a way that the real job is getting done. The way the authors write all the interesting facts of today´s modern life, including correct and simple explanations, so that anyone can understand all the topics without having doubts of the concepts and of the more difficult topics of economy. The examples they give provide us a fun way of learning, and of expanding our thoughts far beyond the theory of economics. Throughout the book, we are exposed to historical, political and sociocultural aspects of the example given, not only to give the reader a complete background, but also to make the reader get involved into the facts that are exposed. This book also give us a chance to be reflexive about almost every aspect that we normally do not bother to think of, for instance, the ordinary task of donate money, rather than be a real help to others, people use donations to make them feel more comfortable with themselves, for recognition from the local newspaper or from that cute girl that asked us a coin for any purpose.
Superfreakonomics stands for the unusual way of making money and manage all the different aspects of all the topics that can be directed to produce money. As the authors said, in the book there are discussed awkward subjects, and not afraid to be revealing, the whole book is specially designed to generate discussion among the economics academics, without being partisan about it. Applying statistical data, the authors give substantial information that supports their theories by applying economic principles, this is sometimes disturbing, and in some cases the theories
References: • Levitt, S., Dubner, S. (2009) Superfreakonomics. Editorial Debate. Estados Unidos. • Lord, L (2011) Book Review, Superfreakonomics. Obtained on January 28th, 2012. Retrieved from: http://edgeinducedcohesion.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/book-review-super-freakonomics/