
Freakonomics
Economics
Steven D. Levitt
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30 in total- 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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