Title: Where's the Beef?
Product review: The tragedy here is that Levitt wasted a potentially great book title, and now nobody can ever call a book "Freakonomics" again. If you are an undergrad econ or business student with a few courses under your belt, "Freakonomics" will come off as a lightweight book. "An Economist's View of the World" by Stephen Rhoads is a much better execution of the same concept; if Freakonomics leaves you wanting more, that would be a good place to go next. It has a LOT more substance than Levitt's book, while remaining mostly accessible to a nontechnical audience. As other reviewers have mentioned, this is a very short book by the time you remove all the dead weight and fluff -- I read the whole thing in about three hours.
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