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A showcase for Levitt's intriguing explorations into a number of disparate topics.... There's plenty of fun to be had. --Salon.com An easy, funny read. Many unsolvable problems the Americans have could be solved with simple means. --Business World An eye-opening, and most interesting, approach to the world. --Kirkus Reviews An unconventional economist defies conventional wisdom. --Associated Press Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences.... Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. --Amazon.com Freakonomics challenges conventional wisdom and makes for fun reading. --Book Sense Picks and Notables Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way.... This is bracing fun of the highest order. --Kurt Andersen, host of public radio's Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century Freakonomics was the 'It' book of 2005. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Hard to resist. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) If Indiana Jones were an economist, he'd be Steven Levitt... Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae. --Wall Street Journal Levitt dissects complex real-world phenomena, e.g. baby-naming patterns and Sumo wrestling, with an economist's laser. --San Diego Union-Tribune Levitt is a number cruncher extraordinaire. --Philadelphia Daily News Levitt is one of the most notorious economists of our age. --Financial Times One of the decade's most intelligent and provocative books. --The Daily Standard Principles of economics are used to examine daily life in this fun read. --People: Great Reads Provocative... eye-popping. --New York Times Book Review: Inside the List Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America... Prepare to be dazzled. --Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point The guy is interesting! --Washington Post Book World The trivia alone is worth the cover price. --New York Times Book Review The funkiest study of statistical mechanics ever by a world-renowned economist... Eye-opening and sometimes eye-popping --Entertainment Weekly

A showcase for Levitt's intriguing explorations into a number of disparate topics.... There's plenty of fun to be had. --Salon.com An easy, funny read. Many unsolvable problems the Americans have could be solved with simple means. --Business World An eye-opening, and most interesting, approach to the world. --Kirkus Reviews An unconventional economist defies conventional wisdom. --Associated Press Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences.... Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. --Amazon.com Freakonomics challenges conventional wisdom and makes for fun reading. --Book Sense Picks and Notables Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way.... This is bracing fun of the highest order. --Kurt Andersen, host of public radio's Studio 360 and author of Turn of the Century Freakonomics was the 'It' book of 2005. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram Hard to resist. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) If Indiana Jones were an economist, he'd be Steven Levitt... Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae. --Wall Street Journal Levitt dissects complex real-world phenomena, e.g. baby-naming patterns and Sumo wrestling, with an economist's laser. --San Diego Union-Tribune Levitt is a number cruncher extraordinaire. --Philadelphia Daily News Levitt is one of the most notorious economists of our age. --Financial Times One of the decade's most intelligent and provocative books. --The Daily Standard Principles of economics are used to examine daily life in this fun read. --People: Great Reads Provocative... eye-popping. --New York Times Book Review: Inside the List Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America... Prepare to be dazzled. --Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point The funkiest study of statistical mechanics ever by a world-renowned economist... Eye-opening and sometimes eye-popping --Entertainment Weekly The guy is interesting! --Washington Post Book World The trivia alone is worth the cover price. --New York Times Book Review

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Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most influential American economist under forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy. Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning journalist and radio and TV personality, has worked for the New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio and Tell Me Something I Don't Know. Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career--as an almost rock star--to become a writer. He has since taught English at Columbia, worked for The New York Times, and published three non-Freakonomics books.

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