Title: Freakonomics
Product review: It is a complete mystery how the author of Blink could recommend this (on the cover). Blink had a central unifying theme that was well-presented and provocative,carefully outlined and argued. This book is a hodgepodge of random "wisdom" that uses a few statistics or economic data and then generalizes in a vague way that seems to imply that the "ideas" (stretching the term) they present are meaningful or interesting. It seems like trivial pursuit for economics and once again reinforces my low opinion of academic economics. Really an insultingly stupid book. It is discouraging to have such superficial analysis of real social problems get such a popular reaction. Good for non-thinkers.
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