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Freakonomics
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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141972909
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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19 May 2026
EBook
5 Oct 2006
Audiobook
1 Aug 2011
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The multi-million bestselling economics book of the century that changed the way we view the world – now with a new foreword, 20 years on

Brought to you by Penguin.


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

'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm Gladwell

WITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATION

Assume nothing, question everything.

This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.

Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.

'Has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next' Wall Street Journal
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141972909
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the authors

Stephen Dubner

Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career - as an almost-rock-star - to become a writer. He has worked for The New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He lives with his family in New York City.

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Steven D. Levitt

Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark medal, given to the most influential American economist under the age of forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.

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