Showing posts with label Freakonomics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freakonomics. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Freakonomics: This is what we really want to know

In this section, I will gather the most fascinating studies and insights from freakonomics world, a term coined by Steve Levitt and Stephen J.Dubner after their first book,  Freakonomics: The hidden side of everything

Let's begin with a question that fretting me up since teenagers time:  

What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? Post written by  Stephen  J.Dubner

Imagine a fantasy world that’s exactly as the world is today except that two things are missing: alcohol and marijuana. And then imagine that tomorrow, both of them are discovered. What happens now? How are each of them used – and, perhaps more importantly, regulated? How would we weigh the relative benefits and costs of alcohol versus marijuana?