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Freakonomics with Levitt and Dubner
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How do people get what they want? The most primal aim of economics is to find answers to that blunt but telling question-something at which Steven D. Levitt has proved particularly adept. In this A...
How do people get what they want? The most primal aim of economics is to find answers to that blunt but telling question-something at which Steven D. Levitt has proved particularly adept. In this ABC News program, Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, coauthors of the best-selling book Freakonomics, reason out points of convergence between beauty pageant contestants and crack dealers, abortion and prison, children's car seats and DVD players, consumers and tamarin monkeys, and black straight-A students and Hollywood celebrities. Whether a person is likely to give more to a charity if the person collecting for it is attractive is also considered.
Details
- Creator
- ABC News Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2007], c2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (40 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781421367934
- OCLC
- ocn709673875
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on July 19, 2007.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Freaky Economics: Competition and Rules of the Game (5:39) -- Importance of Physical Attractiveness in Business (4:50) -- Importance of Money in Relationships (2:31) -- Loneliness of Celebrities and High-Achieving Blacks (4:17) -- Freakonomics to Understand Human Behavior (3:28) -- Relationship Between Abortion and Crime Rates (4:23) -- Safety of Child Restraint Systems in Vehicles (5:48) -- Human Nature: Honest or Dishonest? (6:37)