Freakonomics Book Review

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I just happened to read this book ‘Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything‘ a few days back. It was written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner and was released in 2005. I had read a lot of reviews about it, almost all of them positive. So I gave it a try and I am very impressed.

Book: Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Authors: Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

Type: Non Fiction

Year: 2005

What is it about?

It covers a wide range of seemingly weird topics – cheating school teachers, the similarities between the Ku Klux Klan and real estate agents, why most drug dealers are still poor, how the legalization of abortion radically led to the reduction in crime rates, whether sumo wrestlers cheat, whether parenting does really matter that much and how the name of a person can affect his social and economic prospects.

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