Comparing Levitt And Dubner's The Awakening
One instance being when Levitt and Dubner speak about incentives in the very first chapter of the book. According to Levitt, “An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation” (Levitt 1). Levitt mentions how incentives are the most important discipline of economics and how incentives cause individuals to react in a number of ways. They then correlate the idea of incentives to how parents react to picking up their children from a day care center in Israel. He mentions how a price is attached to showing up late to pick up one’s child at the daycare in Israel, in turn the parents showed up late more frequently. The reason being is before the fine was imposed parents merely picked their children