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Dubner es periodista y escritor, reconocido por su capacidad para traducir ideas complejas en narrativas accesibles.
Known for: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World
Books by Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics es un libro que aplica la teoría económica a una amplia gama de fenómenos sociales y culturales aparentemente no relacionados. A través de ejemplos provocativos y análisis empíricos, los ...
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
SuperFreakonomics is a provocative, data-driven tour through the hidden logic of human behavior. In this follow-up to Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ask the kinds of questions mo...
When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World
A collection of essays and blog posts by the authors of Freakonomics, exploring quirky and unconventional economic insights into everyday life, from the economics of bank robbery to the hidden side of...
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Chapter 1 – What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
Incentives are the cornerstone of human behavior, yet they can also be the engine of corruption. When I began studying cheating among Chicago schoolteachers, the revelation was startling: teachers whose pay and reputation depended on student test scores occasionally changed those scores. The statist...
From Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Chapter 2 – How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?
Information is power—a truth so pervasive that it dictates social hierarchies, business negotiations, and historical oppression. The Ku Klux Klan, for all its terror and secrecy, maintained its influence through control of information. When a journalist infiltrated and exposed their rituals and inte...
From Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Incentives Quietly Drive Human Decisions
The simplest way to understand human behavior is often the least flattering: people respond to incentives. That does not mean everyone is greedy or immoral. It means choices change when costs, benefits, rewards, and penalties change. SuperFreakonomics builds on this core insight by showing how incen...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Self-Interest Can Produce Surprising Good
One of the book’s most uncomfortable but useful ideas is that self-interest is not the opposite of social good. In many cases, it is the mechanism that creates it. SuperFreakonomics challenges the instinct to divide behavior into clean categories of selfish and altruistic. Instead, Levitt and Dubner...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Unintended Consequences Matter More Than Intentions
A policy can be compassionate, intelligent, and well-funded and still fail spectacularly. Why? Because intentions do not determine outcomes; incentives and reactions do. One of the central lessons of SuperFreakonomics is that every intervention changes behavior, often in ways its designers never ant...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Data Reveals What Stories Hide
People love stories, but stories often mislead. A dramatic anecdote can feel more convincing than a mountain of evidence, even when it points in the wrong direction. SuperFreakonomics argues that if you want to understand the world, you must learn to distrust intuition and look closely at data. Thi...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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Dubner es periodista y escritor, reconocido por su capacidad para traducir ideas complejas en narrativas accesibles.
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