Freakonomics

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Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Epilogue

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All Themes Incentives Irrational Behavior, Experts, and “Conventional Wisdom” Morality and Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Thinking Nature vs. Nurture Crime

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All Symbols The white child and the black child

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Introduction

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Detailed Summary
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Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue

Themes

All Themes
Incentives
Irrational Behavior, Experts, and “Conventional Wisdom”
Morality and Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Thinking
Nature vs. Nurture
Crime

Quotes

Characters

All Characters

Symbols

All Symbols
The white child and the black child

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Freakonomics Symbols

The white child and the black child

At several points in the book, Dubner and Levitt bring up a “hypothetical” situation concerning two children, one white, the other black. The white child is raised in a nice part of Chicago, has two…

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