Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Freakonomics: Book Review

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

For those who havent read the book. I would like to write a review on this book.
If you are a aficionado of economics then you will definetly praise this book but if you are not this book will definetly interest you.

Freakonomics name comes to the mind of the author as there is no unifying theme for this book. Only thing which we can find common is the underlying economics.

Book starts with some vague and never asked questions which i atleast never thought or never even heard some one discussing. In the following chapters he tries to find the answer of these questions. Some questions which i found most interesting was what is common between a sumo wrestler and a school teacher, why do drug dealers still leave with their mothers etc...

The book suggests that many difficult questions can be answered in a correct way only if we search in the right data. At the end author has wooed the readers to ask such questions, and to find the right answers.

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