Freakonomics 《魔鬼經濟學》
freakonomics
freak + economics
freak 怪人，怪物
He is a freak.
freak 怪異的
economics 經濟學
freakonomics 《怪異經濟學》
《魔鬼經濟學》
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers
have in common?
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
How much do parents really matter?
What kind of impact
did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions
for an economist to ask.
But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.
He is a much-heralded young scholar
who studies the riddles of everyday life
from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing
-- and whose conclusions regularly
turn the conventional wisdom on its head.
He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple,
unasked question.
Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues;
others have an admittedly freakish quality.
Thus the new field of study contained in this book:
Freakonomics
講解
New York 紐約
United States 美國
University of Chicago 芝加哥大學
Stetson Kennedy 斯泰森?肯尼迪
Head Start 領先
Black Disciples 黑人信徒
Los Angeles 洛杉磯
Supreme Court 最高法庭
Paul Feldman 保羅? 費爾曼
Steven Levitt 史蒂芬? 列維特
James Alan Fox 詹姆斯?艾倫??？怂?BR>National Bureau of Economic Research 國家經濟研究局
Adam Smith 亞當?史密斯
American Economic Review 《美國經濟評論》
Jake Williams 杰克?威廉斯
Journal of Political Economy 《政治經濟學雜志》
Oscar Danilo Blandon 奧斯卡?丹尼洛?布蘭登
Peter Sandman 彼得?桑德曼
Sudhir Venkatesh 蘇希爾?溫卡什
Black Gangster Disciple Nation 黑人信徒團體
Brady Act 布雷迪法案
Chicago Public School 芝加哥公立學校
Emmett Holt 艾米特?霍特 語言點
語言點
in common 共同，共同享有的
We have a lot in common.
impact 影響
have an impact on
His parents have a strong impact on the boy.
sound like 聽上去像
sound
look like
feel like
smell like
You sound like you are sick.
much-heralded
heralded 先行的
much 非常
much-respected 備受尊敬的
much-admired 備受敬仰的
turn something on its head
turn sth. upside down
We should turn our view of this problem on its head.
a mountain of 大量的
many / much / a lot of / a great deal of
a mountain of
life-and-death 生死攸關的，非常重要的
life-or-death
It's a life-and-death matter.
出版社：廣東經濟出版社
出版日期：2006-3
頁數：209