Steven Levitt

perseverance, prosperity and optimistic attitude. These three characteristics is what contributed to Monore’s success. Also, these characteristics also matched the attributes that are mentioned in the article “A Star is Made” by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. In the begginig of the movie, the first charactersistic, perseverance Mr. Monore portayed. Mr. Monore wakes up at the crack of dawn to work on his Indian motorcycle. His neighbor was upset and yelled at Mr. Monore because the…

Asserting that ethics can manipulate the way people interpret situations, in their 2009 novel Freakonomics Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner identify the cause behind many socioeconomic events, contrasting seemingly unrelated topics, and then connect unthought of events to more commonly known ones, bringing out their correlation. Their purpose is to expose how the world really operates, with great influence from moral beliefs, by stripping layers from the surface of modern life in order to…

option? In the Ted Talks by Steven Levitt, Steven begins by telling a story of a little girl that died when she was two while she was in a car seat. He explained how she would also have died if she was in a regular seat belt. His logic was whether or not she was in a car seat or a regular seat belt the outcome would still have been the same. He was explaining that whether your cure of automobile crash is cheap or expensive your child can still die during a crash (Levitt, 2005). What he did not…

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime The authors John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt released their journal article “The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime”, in May 2001. Both authors have the strong opinion that the legalization of abortion in the years between 1970 and 1973 is the main reason for the decline of the crime in the 1990s. Donohue and Levitt are able to support their findings with evidence from their research throughout their whole article. Moreover, this research was not…

Christian Andersen and the multitude of stories given in the book, “Think like a Freak” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner are comparable by nature. The two highlight that thinking like a child: sets us free from preconceptions, allows us to think small, and see the obvious for what it is. All of these topics underline the relationship between knowledge and performance in the decision-making process. Levitt and Dubner make multiple points of what they think “thinking like a freak” may be…

Speaker-Steven D. Levitt, labeled as a “rogue economist” explores the causes behind many of the world's economic situations, such as how a woman’s fight for the right to abort her baby led to the decrease in criminals 50 plus years later, or how crack gangs show an uncanny resemblance to a capitalist enterprise. Levitt, sees beyond the average economist and looks to solve the riddles that define our economy today. Many people may see Levitt’s ideas as anything but economics. That is because…

In chapter 4 of Superfreakonomics, Steven D.Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner introduce many problems that seem to be very severe were eventually solved using relatively cheap and straightforward solutions. Through telling a series of stories, the authors carefully illustrate how simple fixes are applied to address complex problems. At the beginning of this chapter, Levitt and Dubner offer a soft opening – “The fix is in -and it’s cheap and straightforward (Levitt & Dubner 72)”, which leads to the…

information. In Freakonomics, by Steven Dubner and Stephen Levitt, they explain how experts use information to completely abuse and overrule their consumers to their advantage. Asymmetric information causes a massive imbalance in the quality or quantity of the information that is possessed or distributed to multiple people.…

Mathematical economics Freakonomics This movie has been adapted from a book written by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. The entire movie has been divided into parts highlighting various phenomenon. The movie begins with Dubner and Levitt stating an example of a real estate agent and his client. The agent will convince his client to accept an offer lesser than what is being demanded rather than wait for another week. This is because the commission that the agent gets on the extra money that…

Why does Mr. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dunbner not like realtors? In a book filled with so many interesting questions, this would be the one I would ask the authors directly. This book by economist Steven D. Levitt, co-authored with Stephen J. Dubner, fuses together stories, anecdotes, data analyses, and discussions of unusually linked phenomena as it ask its readers to think more critically about the things that occur in everyday life. Things like how birth control has stemmed the crime rate,…