Title: Audiobook loses one star for production
Product review: Far from being an in-depth book on economics, this is a 10,000-foot view - that is, the book is imminently skimmable. Levitt offers some interesting ideas, but nothing ground-shaking and with little real supporting evidence...thus, he and Dubner seem to have padded it with a lot of needless speculation and rumination. Levitt is a smart guy (as the reader or listener is reminded, over and over), but the book is academically lazy.The problem is that the audiobook doesn't allow the listener to skip over the unnecessary bits (like the 30-minute hagiographic intro by Dubner - if you get the audiobook, you can bypass the first five tracks. Spoiler alert: It says Levitt's a genius!)With a bit more effort and a lot more editing, this could have been a splendid book...as it is, it's kind of like the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" of economics. A lot of nifty anecdotes, but not a lot of real information.
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