Steven D. Levitt

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tot167 at June 18, 2011
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer 8 Lee, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food"
Tw.lve | 2009 | ISBN: 0446698970 | 320 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

Thinking, Fast and Slow  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by AlexGolova at July 17, 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
English | 10 May 2012 | ISBN: 0141033576 | 512 Pages | EPUB | 839.62 KB

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by AlexGolova at July 17, 2018
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H Thaler
English | 5 Mar. 2009 | ISBN: 0141040017 | 320 Pages | PDF | 1.86 MB

Freakonomics (2010) [Repost]  Movies

Posted by fekmax at June 15, 2015
Freakonomics (2010) [Repost]

Freakonomics (2010)
English | DVDRip | AVI | XviD, 827 Kbps | 640x352 | 25.000 fps | 699 MB
Audio: AC-3, 256 Kbps | 2 channels | 48.0 KHz | Runtime: 01:29:27 minutes | Subtitles: Spanish (srt)
Genre: Documentary

The field of economics can study more than the workings of economies or businesses, it can also help explore human behavior in how it reacts to incentives. Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner host an anthology of documentaries that examines how people react to opportunities to gain, wittingly or otherwise. The subjects include the possible role a person's name has for their success in life, why there is so much cheating in an honor bound sport like sumo wrestling, what helped reduce crime in the USA in the 1990s onward and we follow an school experiment to see if cash prizes can encourage struggling students to improve academically.
Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

Gary Smith, "Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics"
English | 2014 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 146830920X | EPUB | 2,6 mb

Thinking, Fast and Slow [Kindle Edition]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by AlenMiler at Sept. 20, 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow [Kindle Edition]

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
English | November 3, 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B005MJFA2W | 449 pages | AZW3 | 1.46 MB
Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It

Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It By Robert A. Pape, James K. Feldman
Publisher: Unive..rsity Of Chica..go Press 2010 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0226645606 | PDF | 1 MB
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Tout le monde ment... (et vous aussi !) Internet et le Big Data"

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Tout le monde ment… (et vous aussi !) Internet et le Big Data : ce que nos recherches Google disent vraiment de nous"
2018 | ASIN: B079PGX6PX | Français | PDF | 350 pages | 116 MB

Les parents favorisent-ils les garçons plutôt que les filles ? L'école que l'on fréquente influence-t-elle réellement notre réussite ? Mentons-nous souvent sur notre sexualité ?
En ce début de xxie siècle, nos navigations Internet génèrent 8 millions de giga-octets de données chaque jour. Une quantité stupéfiante d'informations qui en disent long sur chacun d'entre nous, car c'est à notre moteur de recherche que nous confions nos questions et nos pensées les plus intimes. …

Alan Beattie, "False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World"  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tired at Aug. 4, 2009
Alan Beattie, "False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World"

Alan Beattie, "False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World"
Riverhead Books | 2009 | ISBN: 1594488665 | 335 pages | siPDF | 5 MB

Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies—why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements of economics, history, politics, and human stories, revealing that societies, economies, and countries usually make concrete choices that determine their destinies. In doing so, he addresses such illuminating queries as: Why are oil and diamonds more trouble than they are worth? Why did Argentina fail and the United States succeed? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine?