Steven D. Levitt's Freakonomics

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In Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner present a unique perspective on economic issues in the world today. The authors do not aim to . Giving an individual enough information to come to their own conclusion instead of forcing them to a side of an issue. Levitt and Dubner make frequent and effective use of statistics, cause and effect, and exemplification in the text.
The most effective tool used by the authors is cause and effect. The text is dominated by examples and explanations, the most prominent being the book’s thesis: “People respond to incentives.” which may seem quite obvious, but what a person does when given an incentive is not always the expected outcome. When interviewing a Chicago prostitute, the authors asked
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