Book Review: Freakonomics

I'll admit that Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything came out more than two years ago and despite its being widely well-received, I only now got around to reading it. Sorry.

That being said, I found it much as promised: lacking a unifying theme, almost delightfully random, and really insightful. Levitt's work has clearly moved economics past its burdensome title of the "dismal science" into a more accessible and enlightening realm. I also found it noteworthy to show what economists can do given the right data. Anyways, a brief, shallow two cents.


Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything