Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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A slipcased hardback edition of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestselling phenomenon, with the original first Penguin edition artwork.What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common?Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?How can your name affect how well you do in life?The answer: Freakonomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life.Now updated with the authors' New York Times columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life's secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.
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4 primary books6 released books#1 in Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a 6-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
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This is a really fun and interesting read, though I'm not sure I agree with many of the conclusions drawn from the data they have. It is well presented though and raises a lot of interesting questions. It is good as a thought experiment.
After hearing such glowing reviews, I was pretty disappointed in this book. I think if I hadn't had those preconceptions coming into it, I would have given in 2 stars. This book seems to me to confuse correlation and causality while claiming that it doesn't. It isn't so much a book about economics as about data analysis. Which would be fine except that I questioned the validity of every assertion made and felt that I needed to see the methods section of every study discussed. Furthermore, I felt that the book was oversimplified and redundant. I finished it purely out of stubbornness.
