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Eighteen students joined President Les Garner, his wife Katrina, and professor of mathematics, Ann Cannon in his home for Berry Center Reading Group discussions on Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Students questioned topics such as "why do drug dealers still live at home with their moms and how the Ku Klux Klan is like a group of real estate agents." Following their conversations, the group traveled to Chicago to meet coauthor Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and director of The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. Students participated in a Becker Center conference lecture, attended a lunch with Levitt as the keynote speaker, and held a 90-minute private meeting with him about his book.

"I love being able to analyze Stephen Levitt's Freakonomics with President Garner," says Maggie Rudick, a senior from Sellersville, Penn. "We look at all different aspects of Levitt's arguments and relate it to personal experiences while incorporating academics from a variety of disciplines. It's exciting to meet in President Garner's home and get to test Katrina's new pound cake recipes, too."

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Reading Group --- Day 1 

Freakonomics Reading Group at President Garner's house. Everyone has their books and are ready to start. 

 

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 

Cornell students with Becker and Murphy 

Cornell Students, President and Katrina Garner, Jim McWethy with Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy 

Discussing a book with the author! 

Author Steven Levitt talking to students about his book, Freakonomics 

Discussing rogue economics 

President Garner listens as student Chelsea Coyne discusses her thoughts on the book 

Wow, great chapter! 

Veronica and Mehrdad discussing their favorite passages in the book 

Amber Fricke with Steven Levitt 

 

Students arrive at the University of Chicago 

At the Becker Center's conference on Economics in Chicago and meeting with Steven Levitt 

Audrey Saunders talking with Nobel Laureate Gary Becker 

Saunders asks Becker what made him get into the field of economics 

Audrey Saunders with Steven Levitt 

 

Lunch, table 1 

Lunch time at the Becker Center for Price Theory 

Spring 2007  Berry Center Reading Group

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economicst Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

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