Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The book has been described as melding pop culture with economics.

As of fall 2009, it had sold over 4 million copies worldwide.

    * Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers (See below)
    * Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
    * Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
    * Chapter 4: The controversial role legalized abortion may have played in reducing crime. (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.")
    * Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education
    * Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children