魔鬼经济学英文版第二章

魔鬼经济学英文版第二章思维导图，知识内容有3k党的起源与建立、斯泰森肯尼迪的故事、信息带代价等，收藏下图学习吧！

How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of Real-Estate agents?

• 1 Origin and Establishment of the Ku Klux Klan
  • founder
    • six former Confederate soldiers
  • aim
    • suppress the colored citizens
  • rebirth
    • Film: The Birth of a Nation
  • lay low
    • World War Ⅱ and scandals
  • revival
    • burned the rock carving of Robert E Lee
  • current situation
    • hold great sway with politicians
• 2 The story of Stetson Kennedy
  • background
    • with the bloodlines of a Klansman but an opposite temperament
  • driving forces
    • hatred of ignorance and intimidation
  • do
    • gathered facts about the Klan and exposed
• 3 The surprising facet of Klan's violence
  • statistics
    • decrease in lynchings
    • the absence of a correlation between lynchings and Klan membership
    • relative to the size of the black population, lynchings were exceedingly rare
  • the fact of the Klan
    • a sorry fraternity of men
  • problem
    • most of Kennedy's effort weren't producing the desired effect
    • tossing pebbles at a giant
  • another way
    • make public the Klan's most secret information
  • result
    • Americans who might be inclined to oppose the Klan were given enough specific information to oppose more actively
    • for those who inclined to accept the Klan had now been given cautions for not doing so
    • the raw power of information
• 4 The price (or sin) of information
  • example
    • the price of term life insurance fell dramatically because of the Internet
  • conclusion
    • • Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent---all depending on who wields it and how
  • case
    • selling the lemon for more than it is truly worth
    • buying caskets and cars
    • trait: sins of information; hard to detect
    • angioplasty
  • reason
    • information asymmetry
• 8 Summary
  • phenomenon
    • we say one thing and do another
  • example
    • the election between a black candidate and a white candidate
    • the story of the white supremacist David Duke
• 7 The Secret of Online Dating
  • example
    • dating websites
      • they were mostly white and claimed to be a lot richer; taller, skinner, and better-looking than average
      • posting a photo
      • the preferences between men and women
      • race
• 6 Is It Univerasl Rule?
  • example
    • you don't want to come off as cruel or bigoted
    • the study of discrimination from The Weakest Link
  • result
    • other groups that society doesn't protect and two theories
      • taste-based discrimination----the elderly
      • information-based discrimination----Latinos
• 5 Real-Estate agents'Information Abuse
  • case
    • selling your house
      • the agent will wait more days to sell her house for more money, but won't do it to your house
    • John Donohue: within 5 minutes, a zooming market had tanked----marvels conjured by an agent
    • agent would persuade the homeowner to sell for less while at the same time letting potential buyers know that a house can be bought for less
    • language used in real-estate ads
  • conclusion
    • agents simply are people responding to incentives
• information abuse