Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their mothers? Why do prostitutes earn more than architects? One of today"s most original thinkers turns our view of the world upside down... In "Freakonomics" Levitt turns conventional economics on its head, stripping away the jatgon and calculations of the "experts" to explore the riddles of everyday life and examine topics such as: how chips are more likey to kill you than a terrorist attack; why sportsmen cheat and how fraud can be spotted; why violent crime can be linked not to gun laws. policing or poverty, but to abortion; how money affects elections; and how the name you give your child can give them an advantage in later life.