Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

An explanatory note --

Introduction: the hidden side of everything --

What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? --

How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? --

Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? --

Where have all the criminals gone? --

What makes a perfect parent? --

Perfect parenting, Part II; or : would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet? --

Epilogue : two paths to Harvard --

Bonus matter: The probability that a real-estate agent is cheating you ; Selected Freakonomics columns from The New York Times Magazine ; A Q & A with the authors.

Introduction : the hidden side of everything

What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?

How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?

Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?

Where have all the criminals gone?

What makes a perfect parent?

Perfect parenting, Part II; or, Would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet?

Epilogue : two paths to Harvard

Bonus material added to the revised and expanded 2006 ed.

An explanatory note

Introduction: the hidden side of everything

What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?

How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?

Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?

Where have all the criminals gone?

What makes a perfect parent?

Perfect parenting, Part II; or : would a Roshanda by any other name smell as sweet?

Epilogue : two paths to Harvard.