Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best seller "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Student Life Center ballroom.

General admission tickets are $10. Tickets are free to Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff and must be picked up in advance at the Sarratt Student Center box office. Tickets are $5 for students other than those from Vanderbilt.

The book tackles the riddles of everyday life by applying basic economics – "how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing."

The authors, Dubner and Steven Levitt, explore society's "hidden side" including the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the myths of campaign finance and the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York. His co-author is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. The book, originally published in the United States in 2005, spent more than two years on The New York Times' bestseller list and has been translated into more than 30 languages. More than three million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.
-- Vanderbilt University News Service