Maria Aluchna
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - why do crack dealers live with their mothers?

The article is a review of a book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything written by S. Levitt - a young American economist and S. J. Dubner - a journalist. The book has already become bestseller in the USA and now it is published also in Poland. Freakonomics is a specific area of economic research which deals only with selected phenomena which are, in fact, sometimes not even seen as part of the economy. The authors try to find answers for many different questions such as e.g.: why do real estate agents prefer to sell a house quicker and cheaper and not to wait and earn more on commission?, what is more dangerous for your child: to play in a house of a friend whose parents have gun or to play in a house of a friend whose parents have built a pool in their garden? or why do crack dealers live with their mothers?