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Bookclub Meeting
Event CAMP Toronto Book Club - Freakanomics
Date 2006-02-10 8:00PM to 10:00PM
Venue Cafe Nicole, Novotel Hotel
Mississauga, ON
Cost
BOOKCLUB IS FREE (but you'll need to purchase the
feature book of the month)
and...
A minimum purchase of $5 is required as we are using
restaurant space at Cafe Nicole:
Coffee & desert roughly $5-8 spend.
Dinner $7-12 (approx)
Parking is FREE across from Hotel Novotel 7pm onwards.
Public transit users can get off at Square One, Mississauga and walk across the street to Hotel Novotel.
Details
Our next book is Freakanomics.
From the Publisher:
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.
He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question.
Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.
Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and
co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at
root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they
want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The
myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern
world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and
downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable,
and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more
intriguing than we think.
All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If
morality represents how we would like the world to work,
then economics represents how it actually does work.
It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
Read the entire book before the meeting.
See you there bookworms!
RSVP Aisha before Feb 2nd at [email protected]
Date 2006-02-10 8:00PM to 10:00PM
Venue Cafe Nicole, Novotel Hotel
Mississauga, ON
Cost
BOOKCLUB IS FREE (but you'll need to purchase the
feature book of the month)
and...
A minimum purchase of $5 is required as we are using
restaurant space at Cafe Nicole:
Coffee & desert roughly $5-8 spend.
Dinner $7-12 (approx)
Parking is FREE across from Hotel Novotel 7pm onwards.
Public transit users can get off at Square One, Mississauga and walk across the street to Hotel Novotel.
Details
Our next book is Freakanomics.
From the Publisher:
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist.
He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question.
Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.
Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and
co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at
root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they
want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The
myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern
world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and
downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable,
and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more
intriguing than we think.
All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If
morality represents how we would like the world to work,
then economics represents how it actually does work.
It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
Read the entire book before the meeting.
See you there bookworms!
RSVP Aisha before Feb 2nd at [email protected]