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ASSUME NOTHING, QUESTION EVERYTHING What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it’s all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life. ‘Made me laugh out loud’ Scotland on Sunday ‘Prepare to be dazzled’ Malcolm Gladwell ‘The mot du jour’ Guardian Total controversy . . . Levitt has shocked the world’ Sunday Express FREAKO Steven D. Levitt & St ephen J. Dubner FREAKONOMICS ‘A phenomenon’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner ‘Non-stop fun’ Evening Standard Now updated with the authors’ New York Times columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life’s secret codes, you can discover a new way of seeing the world. School Bus ISBN 978-0-141-01901-7 9 780141 019017 £ 9.99 PENGUIN Economics ‘If Indiana Jones were an economist he’d be Steven Levitt . . . Freakonomics reads like a detective novel . . . has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next’ Wall Street Journal ‘A sensation . . . you’ll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Dazzling . . . a delight’ Economist ‘Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph

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ASSUME NOTHING, QUESTION

EVERYTHING

What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in

common?

Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?

The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that a�ect us daily from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to tra�c jams. And it’s all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life.

‘Made me laugh out loud’ Scotland on Sunday

‘Prepare to be dazzled’ Malcolm Gladwell

‘The mot du jour’ Guardian

‘Total controversy . . . Levitt has shocked the world’ Sunday Express

FREAKO

Steven D. Levitt &

Stephen J. Dubner

FREAKONOMICS

‘A phenomenon’ Observer

‘Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph

A Rogue Economist Explores

The Hidden Side Of Everything

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

‘Non-stop fun’ Evening Standard

Now updated with the authors’ New York Times columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life’s secret codes, you can discover a new way of seeing the world.

School Bus

I S B N 978-0-141-01901-7

9 7 8 0 1 4 1 0 1 9 0 1 7

£ 9.99PENGUINEconomics

‘If Indiana Jones were an economist he’d be Steven Levitt . . . Freakonomics reads like a detective novel . . . has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next’ Wall Street Journal

‘A sensation . . . you’ll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Dazzling . . . a delight’ Economist

‘Brilliant’ Sunday Telegraph