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    However, if they pay more attention to the problem, I believe there is always a simple way to solve the problem, which sometimes could be the best solution to the problem. As Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner state in their book titled Superfreakonomics, “But the best fix, he realized, was also the simplest one” (Levitt and Dubner 148). Nowadays, people tend to use internet and social medias most of the time, either at work or at home. However, spending too much time on social medias can cause problems to the users as well. Accordingly, this leads to the concern of parents on their children who are addicted to social medias. Therefore, those parent tend to do everything to protect their children from using social…

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    Imagine you’re playing outside and it starts to rain out of nowhere. Without giving it much thought you continue to play, but minutes later you feel a shooting pain all throughout your body as if you had just been tased. You are lying on the ground unable to move and unaware of what had just happened to you. Several months later you wake in a hospital bed with flowers and family members surrounding you. Little did you know that you were put into a coma after being struck by lightning. Being…

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    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…

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    What Freakonomics is trying to argue that every economic theory is wrong in the sense that it missed that missing link. The authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner of Freakonomics wants the reader change their entire perspective on economics. Levitt, the economist of the two authors believes there are root causes to everything certain incentives that pushes humans to act a certain way. The book takes this rule and applies it to teachers cheating, sumo wrestlers fixing matches and crime…

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    Throughout chapters seventeen through twenty-four of the nonfiction novel From Triumph to Tragedy, authors John Tartaglio and Andrew Chapin argue that, regardless of the circumstances of a situation, people should not give up on the way to reaching their goals when unexpected challenges hinder their ability to achieve what they aspire to. Both authors want to encourage readers to battle through tough times, by highlighting that, despite the challenges which come with having both legs amputated…

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    Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner examines how incentives are the driving force of human behavior. The book makes a connection between incentives and the economy; specifically how these motivations cause a shift in the financial system. The authors of this text are able to support their argument that this connection is feasible through the use of rhetorical questions, juxtaposition, anecdotes, and an inquisitive tone. In order to prove that incentives- “the cornerstone[s]…

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    Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner takes on six different topics with an interesting type of thinking. Throughout the book the authors question what causes the variables of x and y. In this they go over if one causes the other or if they are just related and causes by another factor z. This brings to question many topics and goes deep into the analysis of what causes what and if there are hidden factors that people don’t see. To do this they use many sources of statistics to…

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    Week Three Freakonomics Analysis Question The authors of Freakonomics (2006) relate a gang of drug dealers and how their operation works to a tournament or a winner take all market. They imply that a person starts on the bottom of the chain like an athlete or game player would in a sporting tournament, then they work their way to the next level of the game by winning or beating all of the other opponents on that level. The player would eventually work their way through all of the levels until…

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    Freakonomics has no unifying theme, rather it has multiple themes. Although there is no unifying theme in the book, Levitt and Dubner have a recurring theme which states that “economists love incentives…The typical economist believes that the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme.” Freakonomics can described as the power of incentives and how one acts upon them. Similar to the definition of freakonomics, economics is…

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    Charles Wheelan was born in 1966 and later graduated from Dartmouth college with a major in economics. He currently is a democratic candidate the the U.S Representative for Illinois in the 5th District. He is also the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Money and Naked Economics. Wheelan wrote Naked Economics in a way that anyone can understand it, whether you are a professional economist or just a high school student studying basic economics. After reading the entire book, it is now clear to me…

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