Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner


This was a pretty interesting book. It was a total pulp read (New York Times Bestseller) and it was super short with massive print, wide spacing and only 200 or so pages with lots of charts. The kind of thing that you can read while waiting for a doctors apointment (you would finish it if you were at my doctor's office). There is no real unifying theme but it is well written and just is chock full of interesting tidbits. It mainly analyzes our culture's standard block of conventional wizdom and gives some actually scientific answers to very basic questions.
There's really nothing more to say about this book because it is so self explanitory. It's not actually the hidden side of everything, that's just hype of course, but there are really a huge amount of ideas that aren't generally looked at. Alright. Short like the book I guess.
Talk to you soon.
Andrew

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