Freakonomics: Book 1
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Liked It3 of 4 members found this review helpful “This book is kind of hard to explain. It's nonfiction for sure, as the authors use economics to explore and explain everyday problems like crime, cheating on standardized testing, and getting parents to pick their kids up from daycare. Though it has a few themes that keep popping up over and...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “The basic premise of Freakonomics is that everything that happens leads to something else, or that one thing leads to another. It's a book about cause and effect from a social perspective. With this view, the author challenges our assumptions about the way things are or the way we actually...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Interesting information. Surprising how certain things that seems unrelated can be connected in the economic workings of the world.”
Kari T wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Great approach to economics. Just loved it.”
José Ramón C wrote this review 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“lots of interesting views
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baby names, Chicago Public Schools, Why Drug dealers live with their mother, KKK and violence”“So far this is surprisingly fun and more interesting than expected! I absolutely hated Statistics but if I had read this before I took the class, it might have actually meant something. ”
Vickie S wrote this review 8 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Not as good as the hype would have you believe, but enjoyable nonetheless.”
rnnbrwn wrote this review 9 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Loved it.”
Michelle S wrote this review 10 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It was okay. Interesting subject matter. Some questions very applicable, such as cheating teachers, while others were not fully developed and even contradictory at times (what makes a good parent, and drop in crime rate, respectively). Funny too that the author spends quite a bit of time "proving" that what you do as a parent doesn't make a difference to your children, such as reading aloud to them, and then offers an advertisement for audio books for children at the end of the book, stating that listening to stories helps children to learn better. There were other contradictory aspects of the book, but I thought that one to be particularly humorous.”
The Burrow wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of the most interesting books out there, makes statistics and economics fun, loved it :) GO ECONOMICS!”
Jacqueline Veronica J wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Average”
Shwetank S wrote this review 12 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Love this book to bits - explains the most random occurances in society using economic terminology.”
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