Incredible, fast, entertaining read. Thinkers like this one occasionall remind me just why I have chosen my profession.Short Synopsis (Q):Putting the Freak in EconomicsIn which the global financial meltdown is entirely ignored in favor of more engaging topics.The perils of walking drunk…The unlikely...
A case of a movie being better than the book. Okay, the movie was based on Freakonomics and not this, but still.Honesty, if you are going to write about prostitution, you should look at more than just one city.Still some of it was intersting. Not upset that I either brought or read it.
Some parts a little amusing, most parts ideological bullshit posing as 'objective' science. They should have at least stayed in their own field (microeconomics). Not very credible in topics such as health care or climate change.
This second installment in the "Freakonomics" series was an interesting listen but fell short (same with the first book). I really enjoy the Freakonomics bit on NPR and think it would be easy to translate this into a book format but for some reason the books aren't as interesting or compelling. I ca...
I enjoyed Freakonomics, much to my own surprise as I was a little intimated by the idea of economics, and maths has never been a subject that I enjoyed very much. However, Freakonomics' focus on more sociological issues really drew me in and so I was eager to read the 'freakquel'.Superfreakonomics i...
OMG, the chapter on global warming surpassed its 'Best by' date 6 pages into the chapter....*yawn*otherwise a nice documentary though not as much of a standout the 1st book.
I liked it just as much as the first book. There's just as much random trivia (and some truly disturbing facts about lack of hand washing among doctors).I wish there had been more information about the crime in New York though. I thought it had been observed that the more people that were around ...
Even if you want to dispute their opinions or research, the topics they look at are intriguing and thought-provoking, and it's fascinating to learn about how econometrics is used to examine things like behavior change and decision making.
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