Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics is a book that asks dull meaningless questions, and find interesting answers to these questions. Different than most books, the book does not promise any recurring theme, and it sticks to that. It will talk about crime, names, schools, and even sumo wrestlers; and even though it tries to establish a link, there is really no relationship between sumo wrestlers and teachers, it just is that they both have the same basic patterns, and this book explores these patterns.
I enjoyed reading this book, and liked the stories provided. I liked the thinking style, because - and everybody who knows me personally would vouch for that - I have an over-analytic attitude which kinda fits with the concept of the book.
The latest edition of this book also includes some bonus material. This bonus material contains some entries from the Freakonomics blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/ ); I found some of these entries to be very interesting as well.
I do recommend this book, but only for those among you who like general reading, and not very specific and organized reading, because well, that's what you'll find here.
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I enjoyed reading this book, and liked the stories provided. I liked the thinking style, because - and everybody who knows me personally would vouch for that - I have an over-analytic attitude which kinda fits with the concept of the book.
The latest edition of this book also includes some bonus material. This bonus material contains some entries from the Freakonomics blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/ ); I found some of these entries to be very interesting as well.
I do recommend this book, but only for those among you who like general reading, and not very specific and organized reading, because well, that's what you'll find here.
Poll Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner