Freakonomics

In the musty, data filled world of economics, two authors try to make number crunching interesting by examining things that really no one cares about. A fascinating examination about data sets.

A chapter by chapter summary of the book Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 non-fiction book recently made into a documentary movie due to be released during the Fall of 2010.

I was under the impression that we had advanced beyond this kind of Neanderthal thinking, but I guess not.

The only theme in Freakonomics is that there is no common theme, and is more a book about questions than answers.

A summary of what is wrong with the logic of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

Every now and again there comes a book that so challenges your conventional ways of thinking, that so entertains the ideas that things aren't anywhere near as black and white as experts and leading authorities make them out to be, that it can't but capture the public...

Freakonomics is a book that every American adult simply must read. Perhaps it seems a bit presumptuous of me, but the insight provided by authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner will completely change the way in which you look at the world.

How do you know whether to lower the listing price for your home? The real estate absorption rate is one useful tool to guide this decision.

What's a rogue economist? Someone who says of himself, "I'm not good at math, I don't know a lot of econometrics, and I also don't know how how to do theory." But he can look at the way the world works with the tools of an economist and illuminate it.