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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 the follow-up to the bestselling Freakonomics, exploring surprising and unconventional insights into human behavior and economics. Using data-driven analysis and storytelling, Lev...
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
Chapter 1 – How Incentives Shape Behavior
If economics is about anything, it’s about incentives. They are the invisible strings that pull human behavior in predictable directions, and yet they remain misunderstood. One of our favorite lessons from studying incentives is how they turn up in places you’d least expect—say, a hospital, a brothe...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Chapter 2 – The Economics of Self-Interest and Altruism
Self-interest has been a dirty word ever since economists began using it to explain human behavior. Yet, when viewed correctly, it’s not selfishness—it’s simply the logic of motivation. In SuperFreakonomics, we explore how self-interest can lead to outcomes that appear altruistic. Think of a volunte...
From SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Exploring Unconventional Questions
Our curiosity has always been our best compass. In the Freakonomics world, questions are never too silly or too sacred to explore. We’ve asked whether names can affect a child’s future income, whether prostitution pays better than honest work, and even what the economic logic behind drunk walking mi...
From When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World
The Economics of Crime
Our title essay, “When to Rob a Bank,” began as a joke. A reader once asked if we, as economists, could calculate the perfect time to rob a bank. We laughed, then wondered—why not? When we investigated, the data showed what our gut already suspected: bank robbery is a terrible business. The average ...
From When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World
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Dubner es periodista y escritor, reconocido por su capacidad para traducir ideas complejas en narrativas accesibles.
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