“Freakonomics” is not a book containing any main characters, major events, or solutions. It is a book talking about incentives and what drives people to act the way they do, the incentives society provides don't always provide the results we want or expected. One of the main points that book talks about the difference between correlation and causation. If one cannot realize the difference between these two then they cannot tell if the incentives are working as planned or they are working for a completely different reason. When all these factors are considered it provides a framework for not just understanding the world as we perceive it but understanding it as it really is.
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The researcher learns that the main reason that many join the gang is not because there aren't other opportunities available but the feel as if it's the only occupation in which they have a chance for real advancement. The young men who deal crack know the risks, in the first four years that they are selling, there is ¼ chance that they will be killed. The most disturbing part is that selling crack provides less than minimum wage unless you are an “executive” member of the gang. “The top 120 men in Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money”(93). In this chapter we continue to learn that incentives are rarely as simple as we understand them. This book enlightened me on the real nature of incentives and causation. This book should not be read or analyzed in english classrooms because it can’t be, it has no main character, setting, or theme. The book club process was enjoyable and i would be open to doing it again outside of school. The book club process allows us to think about a book and not just accept it’s word as fact which is important when reading any
This book has made me realize that things don't always work …show more content…
The researcher learns that the main reason that many join the gang is not because there aren't other opportunities available but the feel as if it's the only occupation in which they have a chance for real advancement. The young men who deal crack know the risks, in the first four years that they are selling, there is ¼ chance that they will be killed. The most disturbing part is that selling crack provides less than minimum wage unless you are an “executive” member of the gang. “The top 120 men in Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money”(93). In this chapter we continue to learn that incentives are rarely as simple as we understand them. This book enlightened me on the real nature of incentives and causation. This book should not be read or analyzed in english classrooms because it can’t be, it has no main character, setting, or theme. The book club process was enjoyable and i would be open to doing it again outside of school. The book club process allows us to think about a book and not just accept it’s word as fact which is important when reading any