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Freakonomics

Economics

Steven D. Levitt

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  • if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.
  • The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
  • It is, among other factors, the reality that the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk.
  • Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life.
  • Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
  • Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle, causes.
  • The fact that economic forces were vastly changing the way a person thought and behaved in a given situation.
  • The stakes are considered high because instead of simply testing students to measure their progress, schools are increasingly held accountable for the results.
  • A teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion.
  • Teacher cheating is rarely looked for, hardly ever detected, and just about never punished.
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