Raymond Raffety posted on August 20, 2010 15:27
I just saw this trailer for Freakonomics the Movie:
http://www.nsage.com/Media_Player/VideoId/44/Freakonomics-Official-Trailer-HD-.aspx
I liked the book a lot. The movie loooks like it will be high energy and stay true to the book. The book's topics included:
- Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers
- Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
- Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
- Chapter 4: The controversial role legalized abortion may have played in reducing crime. (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.")
- Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education
- Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children
Take a look at the trailer