Title: Cocktail party fodder
Product review: As the authors readily admit, there is not much of a theme in this book, except for, perhaps, 'question everything.'So the usefulness of the book is limited to cocktail party fodder. The challenge to commonly held beliefs can make a conversation more lively. The analytic tools Levitt uses are those that serve economists well, but are not accessible to most of us, intellectually or practically. We seldom have access to the kinds of data in the book or the statistical programs required to analyze the data.Fun reading, good conversation are the primary benefits from reading Freakonomics. Practical application either to business or to personal lives is limited.
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