Title: Overrated, disappointing.
Product review: The content of this book is similar to that of a Malcolm Gladwell book, though Gladwell writes in much more intelligent and thoughtful style. Freakonomics suffers from an excessively dumbed down "Gee Whizz" style as well as what appears to be a strong streak of ego or vanity on the part of Levitt (or possibly this is due to bad marketing advice from the book editors) in both the tone of the personal asides in the book and the odd self-promoting quotations from the same single NYTimes puff piece about Levitt literally at the front of every chapter.There are some interesting economics insights in the book, but I would really recommend "The Undercover Economist" by Tim Harford instead if you want to read a book about the economics of everyday life.
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