Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
 

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics... (read more)

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aragon14
  • Rated 5 stars

The book is good for light reading especially if you want to take a break from serious reading and are interested in mundane facts that make life peculiar. It has an economic tingle to logically point on hilarious assertions by the authors.

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Leo L
  • Rated 2 stars

A likable yet frustrating book. The writing style is conversational and fast paced which makes for an entertaining read. However, the author's arguments are specious and one gets the sense that they are more concerned with appearing smart ("Look! See how wrong common knowledge is and how right we are! Aren't we cool!?") than scholarship. For instance, as much as the authors decry people being unable to separate correlation from causation, they too succumb to this rather basic error throughout...

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  • Rated 3.950725 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
 

Newest Comments

  • sapna

    sapna said:

    I am not big time into economics..dya think someone who is not economics oriented will enjoy it?

    posted 10 days ago
  • Rajeev O

    rajeev o said:

    Hi Hanson,
    I am a friend of Suja and Santosh from Chelmsford. In fact I am santosh's best friend (We stuided together) and I now live in Witham. Have heard about you thorugh them but we never got to speak.

    Anyways, I got my hands on Freakonomics on a flight but couldnt read much.(I am a voracious reader and tend to read several titles at the same time). What did you think of this one?
    Cheers
    Rajeev

    posted Monday, May 26 2008
  • Sam Dilton

    sam dilton said:

    loved very page of this book. Great analysis of data

    posted Wednesday, April 2 2008
  • buburuza zuza

    buburuza zuza said:

    a very interesting book...i had a lot of things to learn from it.

    posted Thursday, March 27 2008
  • Deeders

    deeders said:

    Loved it! How interesting. Definitely in my top 3 non-fiction favorites.

    posted Saturday, February 9 2008
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