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Freakonomics: Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta (Spanish Edition) | 
| Authors: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Ediciones B
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Pages: 237
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ISBN: 8466625127
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
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Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side of everything, from violent crime, parenting, and baby names to the Ku Klux Klan and real estate, demonstrating how economics isn't just about numbers, but a study of incentives—how people get what they need and want when others need and want the same thing. Comprobando que el estudio de la economia puede explicar como se relacionan fenomenos distintos, este bestseller internacional establece una nueva manera de ver al mundo. Los autores explican el lado escondido de todo, desde crimenes violentos y nombres de bebes hasta el Ku Klux Klan y bienes raices, demostrando que el estudio de la economia es un estudio de los incentivos: el modo en que las personas obtienen lo que desean o necesitan, especialmente cuando otras personas desean o necesitan lo mismo.
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 fascinating November 5, 2008
A great read with a variety of fascinating topics examined. Data is presented quite objectively, and users can draw own conclusions as to causality (though some possible hypotheses are presented).
 Un interesante enfoque economico September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
La primera parte del libro. La vision de Levitt - que Dubner se encarga de plasmar en palabras - del mundo actual es sorprendente, y uno se encuentra con un libro muy alejado de las interminables cifras y estadisticas que harian de cualquier libro de economia un desafio. De hecho, las curiosas preguntas que plantea acerca de la sociedad permiten obtener conclusiones sorprendentes que de otro modo hubieran sido impensables.
Ejemplos como el que la legalizacion del aborto en EEUU permitio que repentinamente - y pese a que todos los analistas preveian lo contrario - se redujera drasticamente el crimen en los anos 90 en este pais es un ejemplo de los interesantes enfoques que Levitt afronta en este libro.
Sin embargo, aun asi los autores se desinflan con largas diatribas en las que reinciden una vez sobre la misma idea y en el que existe un fallo fundamental para el lector no estadounidense: las cuestiones abordadas solo afectan a la historia y sociedad americanas, a excepcion de el ejemplo, donde sugiere que "la eleccion del nombre de un nino esta determinada por patrones socioeconomicos", creo que en latinoamerica eso es evidente!
Luego hay una interesante discusion sobre el sumo japones. Un deporte que refleja la historia y tradicion `honorable' y donde se puede preciar un trasfondo mucho mas oscuro del que muchos podrian pensar.
Aparte de esos dos casos, lo cierto es que, este buen libro pudo haber incluido algunos otros enfoques economicos mas globaticos.
un libro sin "tema unificador" February 16, 2007
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el sr levitt escribe un libro en el que se pretende no tener un tema unificador, como prodria ser algun topico de microeconomia o de calculo financiero. Pero el enfoque dado en el texto tiende a favorecer un analisis de diversas situaciones que ocurren en las sociedades desde el punto de vista de hechos verificables, a la luz de los datos confiables, y de un pensamiento no aprisionado bajo algun estereotipo fijado de antemano sino aquel de refutar las creencias populares convencionales.
 Not the sum of its parts December 12, 2006
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Let me preface this by saying how psyched I was to read this. Copies at the library were perpetually checked out so when I finally planned ahead and got it on hold I had some anticipation going. This wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't the sum of it's parts.
Each chapter goes into an interesting article on some topic. The best of these for me was the analysis of race and trends in baby names. Something like a third of black babies in California have a name that no other baby in the state has. White babies tend to have the same names as one another. One of the more blah chapters for me was about how the crime drop in the 90s was a result of abortion being legalized. The authors show coorellation but crime is very complex, and the treatment so brief that this seems political and not deep at all. Politics isn't taboo at all, but here it seems to be driving the authors and that doesn't lead to fun interesting eddies. Basically the chapters are a mixed bag. Some are pretty good. Some could easily have been left out, because they just weren't so well done and seem unfocused. They fit together to make a bunch of stand-alone articles, not a single whole book.
Almost any chapter from this book would be good to read. On the other hand, hearing about any one chapter is probably going to raise your expectations. If you like the snippets you hear, then buying the book will get you a heap of those snippets. If you are cool with that then go for it.
Excellent read - Inspired thinking August 15, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The basic premise of this book is that statistical analysis in the service of micro-economics can be used to illuminate how people actually behave. (This is distinct from the related question of how people ought to be behave, which properly belongs in the realm of ethics or, more dubiously, religion and politics.) In a world that is increasingly divided into murderous factions fueled by absurd beliefs based on centuries-old "wisdom", this book is a breath of fresh air, and its empirical approach to everyday life would do much good, if adopted by world leaders.
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