This compilation of hidden truths revealed through assessment and assimilation of cause and effect incentives was enlightening and ever encouraging that we should never stop questioning conventional wisdom.

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Freakanomics was a book I'd been meaning to pick up and read for quite some time. When I finally did, I was glad. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but it gave a lot of interesting points and actually makes economics less dry (if you've ever studied economics you know how boring the subject can be if there is nothing to relate to it!).

I especially like how they've traced baby names, and how some of the newer popular names are already popping up. Their predictions/forecast may be dead on.

I loved this book and the way it makes you look at alternative reasons for some of society's social issues developing into what they are today! Just great!

This is the exact same kind of raw material I studied in forensic accounting. Numbers have to be studied beyond face value and this books helps uncover the many camaflauges in data today. A quick read.

I read half the book from YVR to YYZ and the other half a few days later from YYZ to YVR. I found the book fascinating and very interesting .I agree that his data samples seems surprisingly small yet his weird questions and coreralations upon reflection makes intuitive sense. He syas things that people think but are afraid to write or say I.E .abortions and Crime. I would recommend it besides being informative it made me laugh.

This book on a whole was interesting and got me thinking more about the distinction of correlation and causation. I liked the chapters about abortions and crime rates, and the Shangra-Li diet, but I felt as the book went on it started to gain a sort of racist tone.

I saw an interview with the author on the Daily Show way back and I had to go buy the book. I wasn't disappointed. The authors compare things like sumo wrestlers to teachers, KKK members to real estate Agents, and so on. It makes interesting arguments and propositions that'll make you wonder and best of all: think - which may be the greatest benefit of this book.

The first chapter was the most interesting. After that the book devolved into long lengthy explanations about uninteresting phenomenon. The author should have interspersed some of his observations from the first chapter throughout the rest of the book. Reading it was like finding out who-dunnit before reading the murder mystery.

Some very good points raised by Levitt in his book. However, the data to support his premise is mostly empty. I would have liked to have seen more of the research data. I can tell that the publisher wanted to keep the book lean so that they could sell more copies. Too bad, because a book junkie like me would've liked to have read more of the research data.

I wouldnt recommend this book if you want to find something more valuable to read during the holiday. This books describes mostly the school and parenting side than the business sides. If you want to find something that are more solid and concrete/ more informational , I would suggest you read "The world is flat". That is a great book who explains everything involve with business in North America, India, Tawian, Hong Kong...etc.

It's worth a while to spend time on this book, only you want something easy to read.

Enjoy!

For anyone whose eyes glaze over when they hear people discussing economic policy etc - this book is about practical economics applied to everyday life. Some chapters may be less interesting than others, but overall it was a pretty great read.