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Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Revised and Expanded Edition Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Contents An Explanatory Note Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? 2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents? 3. Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms? 4. Where Have All the Criminals Gone? 5. What Makes a Perfect Parent? 6. Perfect Parenting, Part II; or: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? Epilogue: Two Paths to Harvard Bonus Material Added to the Revised and Expanded 2006 Edition Notes Acknowledgments Searchable Terms About the Authors Credits Copyright About the Publisher AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Dubner, who was researching a book about the psychology of money, had lately been interviewing many economists and found that they often s......