Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition
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Babywise (Ezzo)
bagels, purchase of
Baruch College
baseball
basketball
beauty pageants
Becker, Gary
“Beer on the Beach” study (Thaler)
Before His Time (Moore)
behavioral economics
Bennett, William
Bias, Len
Bible
Bill Bennett’s Morning in America
birth control
Birth of a Nation, The
birth rates:
decline in
delivery methods and
increase in
see also abortion
Black Gangster Disciple Nation
blackjack
black market
Blackmun, Harry A.
Black Panthers
Black Power movement
Blagojevich, Rod
Blandon, Oscar Danilo
Blank Slate (Pinker)
Bledsoe, Tempestt
Blodget, Henry
blood donors
Bloomberg, Michael
body parts:
donation and transplant of
values assigned to
Booty (gang member)
Boston Celtics
Boston Tea Party
Bouza, Anthony V.
Brady Act (1993)
Brandeis, Louis D.
Brando, Marlon
Bratton, William
Brazelton, T. Berry
breast feeding
bribes
Brown, John
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Bulger, Peggy
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Bush, George W.
Caesars Palace
calculus
California, University of:
at Berkeley
at Los Angeles
at San Diego
California Institute of Technology
Camerer, Colin
Canada
canola oil
capitalism
capital punishment
carjacking
caskets, purchase of
“Catching Cheating Teachers” (Levitt and Jacobs)
CDC abortion measure
Ceauşescu, Elena
Ceauşescu, Nicolae
Central Florida, University of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
cheating
bribes and
in business
detection of
holidays and
honor system and
human nature and
to lose
mechanics of
morale and
as primordial economic act
in sports
by students
by teachers, professors, and coaches
Chesterton, G. K.
chewing gum
Chicago, University of
Graduate School of Business
Chicago Cubs
Chicago price theory
Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago White Sox of 1919
children:
abandonment of
adoption of
conflicting theories on raising of
in day care
death of
dependent
education of
family environment and
health and development of
IQs of
low birthweight of
naming of
nature vs. nurture and
neglect and abuse of
parental influence on
personalities of
punishment of
reading to and by
rural vs. suburban and urban
safety of
underprivileged
unwanted
see also students
civil liberties
civil rights movement
Civil War, U.S.
Clarke, Jim
Clinton, Bill
coaches
Colorado Adoption Project
Columbia University
Comiskey, Charles
Communist Party (Romania)
concealed-weapons laws
condoms
Confederate Army
Congress, U.S.
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Conley, Dalton
contraception
conventional wisdom
of experts and journalists
inaccuracy of
questioning of
shifts in
sloppy formation of
Cook County, Ill.
corporate scandals
Corzine, Jon
Cosby, Bill
Cosby Show, The
Council on Bioethics
crack cocaine
changes in market for
nicknames for
crib death
crime
abortion and
African Americans and
broken window theory and
corporate
deterrence of
drug-related
incentives for
information
minor
predictions of
property
rising rates of
street
teenage
underreporting of
victims of
violent
white-collar
see also drug dealers; specific crimes
crime reduction
aging population and
capital punishment and
drug market changes and
gun control and
imprisonment and
legalized abortion and
police and
strong economy and
theories of
tougher laws and
criminal mobs
criminologists
Crooked Timber
Daily Racing Form
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The
Danielovitch, Issur
data:
chains of
on early childhood education
game show
online dating
patterns in
recording of
selection of
sports
testing
see also information
dating, online
day-care centers
fines for late pickups at
death:
accidental
of children
drowning
risks vs. fear of
see also capital punishment; homicide
Death Benefit Association
“Death’s Waiting List”
Declaration of Independence
deflation
Dershowitz, Alan
Detroit
diets
DiIulio, John J., Jr.
Dinkins, David
discrimination
age
detection and analysis of
ethnic and religious
gender
information-based
racial
taste-based
unfashionable
DNA sampling
doctors
dogs
Donohue, John
Douglas, Kirk
Dresden, Germany
drug dealers
African Americans as
Colombian connection of
daily life of
incentives of
income of
living with mothers by
organization and hierarchy of
recordkeeping of
risks of
turf wars of
weapons of
drugs:
guns and
homicide and
in sports
see also cra
ck cocaine; drug dealers; heroin
Duggan, W. Dennis
Dukakis, Michael
Duke, Dan
Duke, David
Duncan, Arne
DuPont
Dymally, Mervyn
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS)
econometrics
“Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances, An” (Levitt and Venkatesh)
economics:
behavioral
black culture and
classical
definitions of
“identity” in
incentives and
morality vs.
science of measurement and
tools of
unorthodox approach to
see also money
“Economics of ‘Acting White,’ The” (Fryer)
“Economics of Sexuality, The” (Francis)
Economist
economists
voting and
economy:
global
of 1990s
strength of
education
early childhood
parental
see also schools; testing
Education Department, U.S.
Ehrlich, Isaac
Ehrlich, Paul
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Asinof)
Eisner, Manuel
elections
campaign spending in
campaign spending on
candidate appeal in
of 1948
of 1989
of 1990
of 2004
race and
employment
Enron
environmental hazards
Epstein, Richard
ESPN
Everson, Mark
evil, resisting of
experts:
conventional wisdom and
exploitation and abuse by
incentives of
information of
media and
on parenting
predictions of
self-interest of
shrinking gap between public and
Exxon Valdez
Ezzo, Gary
Feldman, Paul
Fields, W. C.
fines
flame-retardant pajamas
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
football
Foote, Chris
Forbes, Steve
Foreign Correspondents’ Club (Tokyo)
Fox, James Alan
Francis, Andrew
freakonomics
Freakonomics Blog
freakonomics.com/blog/
French Roast
Friedman, Milton
fructose, granulated
Fryer, Roland G., Jr.
funeral directors
Funk, Patricia
Galbraith, John Kenneth
gambling
game theory
General Motors
Georgia, University of, Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball course at
Gertler, Paul
Giuliani, Rudolph
Gladwell, Malcolm
Global Crossing
Goetz, Chris
Goldberg, Michael
Golisano, Thomas
gonorrhea
Google
Goolsbee, Austan
Grace, Mark
Grant, Ulysses
Grateful Dead
Green, Ben
green revolution
Greenspan, Alan
Griffith, D. W.
Groseclose, Tim
Grubman, Jack
gun control
guns:
availability of
buyback of
definition of
drugs and
homicides and
illegal possession of
swimming pool deaths vs. deaths by
Guthrie, Woody
halitosis
Hammermesh, Daniel
Hannah, Daryl
Harrick, Jim, Jr.
Harrick, Jim, Sr.
Harris, Judith Rich
Harvard University
Society of Fellows at
headphones
Head Start
health concerns
health insurance
heart disease
Heilbroner, Robert
heroin
Hillis, David
Hirohito, Emperor
History of the American People, A (Wilson)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitsch, Günter J.
Hoboken, N.J.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holocaust
Holt, L. Emmett
homelessness
expensive headphones and
homicide
correlation of police to
drug-related
falling rates of
guns and
race and
homosexuality
honesty
innate
honor system
horse racing
horses
Hortaçsu, Ali
House of Representatives, U.S.
Huffington, Michael
Hulbert, Ann