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SUMMARY:Bookclub Meeting 6pm-8pm - Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt
DESCRIPTION:The SOUTH EAST ASIAN Meetup Group\n\nPlease come over for some 
 chai and snacks!   I would love to discuss this new book I just picked up. 
  It's available at the library as a audio book (my favorite format listen o
 n commute) or the book copy with many multiple copies available.\n\nSummary
  \n\nWhich is more dangerous\, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteac
 hers 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?\n\nThese may not sound like typical questio
 ns 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 everyd
 ay 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 th
 ese questions concern life-and-death issues\; others have an admittedly fre
 akish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakono
 mics.\n\nThrough forceful storytelling and wry insight\, Levitt and co-auth
 or Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is\, at root\, the study of incent
 ives -- how people get what they want\, or need\, especially when other peo
 ple 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 gan
 g. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The t
 elltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.
 \n\nWhat unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world\, despi
 te 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 look
 ing. Steven Levitt\, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking\, sh
 ows how to see through all the clutter.\n\nFreakonomics establishes this un
 conventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to
  work\, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true tha
 t readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to las
 t a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that.
  It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.\n\nDirections
  to Apt Complex - Hunt Club Apts\n\n1.  Depending on where you are coming f
 rom - route to 83N if you are coming from Baltimore. \nAfter the 695/83 Jun
 ction - Take Exit 17 Padonia Rd Exit\n\n2.  Getting off the highway\, take 
 a RIGHT onto PADONIA RD. \n\n3.  At the Second Light\, Take a LEFT onto YOR
 K RD and stay in the right lane of York Road. \n\n4.  At the second Interse
 ction\, Take a RIGHT onto CRANBROOK RD.\n\n5.  At the next intersection (wi
 th a light) take a RIGHT onto GREENSIDE DR.\n\n6.  Immediately take a LEFT 
 onto SORLEY RD. \n\n7.  Immediately make another LEFT into WOODLAKE DR. - I
 NTO Hunt Club Apartments Complex.\n\n8.   I am in the first building on the
  right just past the garbage dump.  Apt F on second floor.\n\nCockeysville\
 , MD  21030 - USA\n\nSaturday\, March 29 at 6:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos
 3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/8/4/a/event_1030314.jpeg\n\nAttending: 13
 \n\nDetails: http://indianheritage.meetup.com/2/calendar/7446691/
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