Freakonomics 《魔鬼经济学》
freakonomics
freak + economics
freak 怪人，怪物
He is a freak.
freak 怪异的
economics 经济学
freakonomics 《怪异经济学》
《魔鬼经济学》
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
讲解
New York 纽约
United States 美国
University of Chicago 芝加哥大学
Stetson Kennedy 斯泰森?肯尼迪
Head Start 领先
Black Disciples 黑人信徒
Los Angeles 洛杉矶
Supreme Court 最高法庭
Paul Feldman 保罗? 费尔曼
Steven Levitt 史蒂芬? 列维特
James Alan Fox 詹姆斯?艾伦?福克斯
National Bureau of Economic Research 国家经济研究局
Adam Smith 亚当?史密斯
American Economic Review 《美国经济评论》
Jake Williams 杰克?威廉斯
Journal of Political Economy 《政治经济学杂志》
Oscar Danilo Blandon 奥斯卡?丹尼洛?布兰登
Peter Sandman 彼得?桑德曼
Sudhir Venkatesh 苏希尔?温卡什
Black Gangster Disciple Nation 黑人信徒团体
Brady Act 布雷迪法案
Chicago Public School 芝加哥公立学校
Emmett Holt 艾米特?霍特 语言点
语言点
in common 共同，共同享有的
We have a lot in common.
impact 影响
have an impact on
His parents have a strong impact on the boy.
sound like 听上去像
sound
look like
feel like
smell like
You sound like you are sick.
much-heralded
heralded 先行的
much 非常
much-respected 备受尊敬的
much-admired 备受敬仰的
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 生死攸关的，非常重要的
life-or-death
It's a life-and-death matter.
出版社：广东经济出版社
出版日期：2006-3
页数：209