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Freakonomics Filmmakers Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, and the team of Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing examine a myriad of topics in this fascinating, educational, 93-minute, documentary, which is based the bestselling book by journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt, that is divided into four parts: 1) Parenting: A Rosehanda by Any Other Name, discusses how a name affects a person and may influence their life later on; 2) Cheating: Pure Corruption, which discusses cheating by examining the corruption in the world of Japanese Sumo wrestling; 3) Cause & Effect: It's Not a Wonderful Life, examines how legalizing abortion affects the crime rate 20 years later; and 4) Incentives: Can a Ninth Grader Be Bribed to Succeed?, shows economist Sally Sadoff from Chicago University conducting an experiment to see whether offering money to ninth-grade students will motivate them to improve their grades.
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