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    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

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