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A fun, interesting, and provocative book.(Andrew S. Weber )
    
While I'm not generally inclined to read economics books, Freakonomics is very, very accessible. The book is written in clear, readily understandable language (including the best description I've ever seen of regression analysis, causality, and correlation). The topics discussed are quite interesting - why crime REALLY went down in the 90's, the impact parents can REALLY have on their kids, and several others. Whether one ultimately agrees with the authors' conclusions or not, the book certainly encourages you to think about everyday things more critically and not just accept the conventional wisdom. 
My only disappointment is that the book wasn't longer!

一本有趣而且激进的书.(Andrew S. Weber )

尽管我一般不想读经济学的书籍,但是《魔鬼经济学》真的是非常非常通俗易懂。这本书的语言清晰、易懂(包括我见过的对经济衰退的分析、因果关系、相互关系的最好描述)。书里讨论的话题十分有趣——为什么在90年代犯罪率降低了一大截?父母对孩子会有多大影响?等等。不管你最终同不同意作者的观点,这本书绝对会让你更加批判地看待日常生活中的事情,再也不会轻易接受传统智慧。
我唯一的失望就是:这本书太短了!

Good Point(D. T. Jones )    
In a nutshell, I liked this; it looked at many things that seem to cross the minds of normal and abnormal people. We can look at much in the world and wonder why, where, and what for. It certainly blows the doors off of several issues and ideas that many folks seemed to take for granted. I found this information and the conclusions drawn in this book very enlightening and useful. I can now see how and why some folks are destined to succeed, many more are going to fail without truly understanding that they could change just one thing about themselves, if not to merely wreck the conventional wisdom that seems to be prevalent everywhere today.

 "Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America, and reading Freakonomics is like going for a leisurely walk with him on a sunny summer day, as he waves his fingers in the air and turns everything you once thought to be true inside out. Prepare to be dazzled."
- Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink

(D. T. Jones )    

简单地说,我喜欢这本书;它探讨了很多平常人或者不平常的人似乎曾经想过的问题。我们对这个世界上的很多事情都想问个为什么、哪里、为何。我当然曾经拒绝过很多人想当然以为正确的一些论点和观念。我发现这本书里的结论很有启迪意义也很有用。现在我能理解为什么有些人注定要成功;而更多人注定失败,其实他们不懂,他们只需要改变身上一个地方就能获得成功,如果不是想要颠覆当今流行的那些传统智慧的话。
“史蒂芬.列维特拥有全美国最有趣的大脑。阅读《魔鬼经济学》就像是在一个阳光灿烂的夏日午后与他一起放松地散步,听他在空中挥舞着手臂将你曾以为正确的一切彻底翻查一遍。做好准备,你将会晕头转向。”
——马尔柯姆.格莱德维尔,《诀窍》和《眨眼之间》的作者

"If Indiana Jones were an economist, he'd be Steven Levitt. The most recent winner of the John Bates Clark award for the best economist under the age of 40, Mr. Levitt is famous not as a master of dry technical arcane but as a maverick treasure hunter who relies for success on his wit, pluck and disregard for conventional wisdom. Mr. Levitt's typical quarry is hidden not in some exotic locale but in a pile of data. His genius is to take a seemingly meaningless set of numbers, ferret out the telltale pattern and recognize what it means.

It was Mr. Levitt who nailed a bunch of Chicago public-school teachers for artificially inflating their students' standardized test scores. I'm dying to tell you exactly how he did it, but I don't want to spoil any surprises. His account of the affair in "Freakonomics" reads like a detective novel." (more)
- Steven E. Landsburg, Wall Street Journal

“如果印第安娜.琼斯是一个经济学家,那她肯定就是史蒂芬.列维特。列维特是40岁以下克拉克最佳经济学奖的最新获得者,他不是一个研究枯燥的专业经济学的神秘专家,而是一位特立独行的寻宝者。他的成功依赖于他的机智、勇气和对传统的漠视;他的知识来源于数据,而不是什么奇异的地方;他的天才就在于能够抓住一堆看起来没有意义的数字,搜寻它们的真实形式,识别它们的意义所在。
列维特先生查到一群芝加哥公立学校的老师人为地提高学生的考试分数。我很想告诉你他是怎么做到的,但是我可不想破坏他留给你们的惊喜,他对这件事的描述读起来就像一篇侦探小说啊!”(更多)
——史蒂芬.兰斯伯格,《华尔街日报》

"In an age of too much wishful, faith-based conventional wisdom on the right and left, and too much intellectual endeavor squeezed into prefab ideological containers, Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way. Levitt and Dubner suss out all kinds of surprising truths -- sometimes important ones, sometimes merely fascinating ones -- by means of a smart, deep, rigorous, open-minded consideration of facts, with a fearless disregard for whom they might be upsetting. This is bracing fun of the highest order."
- Kurt Andersen, host of public radio's Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century

“当今这个时代,无论是右派还是左派,都充满了想望的、以信念为基础的传统智慧,很多知识都被装进了预制好的意识形态的集装箱。从本质上来说,《魔鬼经济学》在政治上是错误的。列维特和都伯纳调查发现了各种各样的惊人的事实——有时候是很重要的事实,有时候只是吸引人的事实——他们以聪明、深刻、严肃、开明的方式思考这些事实,他们不在乎也许会惹恼某些人。总之,这本书有着最高级别的乐趣,振奋人心。”
——库尔特.安徒生,360度广播的主持人和《世纪之交》的作者

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