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Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt

Economics & FinancePolitics & Society
Publish date
2005
Publisher
De Bezige Bij
Description
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin.
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