Book Choice: Freakonomics - A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

 

Hey Everybody!

 

I am posting now to announce my book choice.

This semester I am very happy because  a lot of interesting books were placed as option.

I'm not the kind of reader interested in fiction books, and I tend to prefer books with backgrounds economics, philosophical and political, for example.

 

For these reason, between the options which were given to us, I decided to pick this book with the picture above called "Freakonomics - A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything".

 

I did a search about this book and I discovered how famous it is. It was best seller by The New York Times List. It had sold over 4 million copies worldwide!

 

The book is a collection of articles which talk about diverse subjects not usually covered by "traditional" economists. There are topics about The Ku Klux Klan, school teachers who cheat, sumo wrestlers who rig matches, criminologists who wrongly predicted a crime wave, Enron energy traders out to fleece a grandmother, corporate felons, game show contestants who discriminate against the elderly, parents with unfenced swimming pools, and real-estate agents focused most on their own commission.

 

It Sounds weird?

I know!

 

I can wait to start to read and share the content inside this book with all you!

 

Thank you again for read my blog!

 

Don't be shy in comment, correct and give suggestions!

	Class #1	Class #2	Class #3
Class name and # (for ex.: Ag 113)	PHYS 213L	PHYS 214L	E MCH 210
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Professor’s name	Gemelke, Nathan David      Hopkins, John Duff Costantino, Daniel Jeffrey Van Hook, Stephen Jay Browne, Richard A	Gemelke, Nathan David Hopkins, John Duff Costantino, Daniel Jeffrey Van Hook, Stephen Jay Browne, Richard A	Suliman, Samia A
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Hey folks!

Here is Gabriel Costa and I am an international student from Brazil at IECP at Penn State University.
I came to State College to do an exchange program of my country called Brazil Scientific Mobility Program. I'll be living here until December 2014 and it's a great opportunity to meet each one of you.

I am enjoying a lot the life here at Penn State and I usually study and make exercises during the week and go out and hang out with my friends at the weekends.

I arrived here last August and I traveled already to Niagara's Fall NY, Washington DC, Miami FL, Altoona PA, and Pittsburg PA. All these different cities  were amazing.

The best place that I visited was Miami FL. I went there during the Thanksgiving Break and the City is really crazy, funny and EXPENSIVE. I have been there in a very famous hostel called International hostel. There had people of at least 10 nationalities, and it was really amazing and new to me.

The last travel was really good too. I went to Washington with really good friends and we had a lot of fun there. The photo at the top of this topic was there in a pub close to the Georgetown University. The place is an Irish Pub and it was different because the students and the lifestyle there is completely different than State College.

One funniest thing about these both travel (Miami and Washington) was when we yelled "WE ARE" at the same time peoples around answered "PENN STATE". And after we introduced ourselves and for our surprise all these peoples were students here.

I am very proud in be part of this crew of lions!

I see you at the next post!