Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong...How “experts”—from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts...Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life...What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?