Title: Interesting & Thought Provoking
Product review: There are the numbers and then the story. Freakonomics is about the story that the numbers tell. The difference here, as the title suggests, is that this is about odd stories that the numbers tell. From the controversial linkage of abortion & crime, to names & economic status.I would have liked to see references to the actual papers in which these theories are postulated, so that I could verify the causality rather than just the correlation stated.The book is well written and very accessible to the layman. Levitt & Dubner avoid technical jargon or convoluted writing common in academia. The chapters are well structured to flow as neatly into each other as non-fiction can, making for a compelling romp through Freakonomics.
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