Books by Stephen J. Dubner

Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. Dubner is best known for being the co-author of the book Freakonomics, which contains the eccentric ideas of unconventional economist Steven Levitt. Dubner's first published work was in the American children's magazine Highlights for Kids. Dubner received a scholarship from Appalachian State University in North Carolina and graduated in 1984. In Appalachian, he formed a band, The Right Profile, which was signed for Arista Records. In 1988, he stopped playing music to focus more on writing, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University (1990), where he also taught in the English Department. In the 1990s, Dubner was a story editor in The New York Times Magazine.

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Think Like a Freak

Stephen J. Dubner

You probably know the feeling – you’ve been going over a problem in your mind endlessly, but you can’t seem to resolve it. Well, “Think Like a Freak” may just give you a solution. It aims to retrain your brain into framing problems in a new way and allows you to enhance your problem-solving skills. By looking at data, rather than ideology, Levitt and Dubner reveal a freakish new way of thinking.

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Freakonomics

Stephen J. Dubner

What do the Ku Klux Klan and real estate agents have in common? Why did U.S. crime rates suddenly drop in the mid-1990s? And why is an expensive election campaign a sure winning feature? These and other fascinating, freakish questions are examined in “Freakonomics.” Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner aim to overturn conventional wisdom and explore the hidden truths of modern life in this New York Times Bestseller.

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