Title: Facts are stubborn things
Product review: Were it not for the deliberate obscurantism that infects most professionals in the field, economics would be one of the most fascinating subjects on Earth. After all, we all make choices and buy things daily, nearly always handicapped by incomplete information. Thanks to Levitt and his writing partner, layers of cant and superstition are stripped away from some very important questions (why do children succeed in school?) and some merely fascinating ones (why do sumo wrestlers cheat?). Levitt is the economist for the intelligent, interested nonspecialist -- in short, a much needed antidote to the ideology-based spewing or needlessly obscure academic irrevelancy that passes for thought these days. Economics are fun again, like when you set up that lemonade stand.
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