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Random, but always interesting. Also, has some stuff about behavioral economics which I really enjoy, so that made it even better.
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Found out that the authors are reviled by the scientific community for shoddy statistics and incorrect conclusions.
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Freakonomics is one of my favorite podcasts, so naturally I decided to give this audiobook a listen. It’s written in much the same vein, so I enjoyed it thoroughly. Some of the stories were repeats because they had been touched on in the podcast. I would be interested to see if they have a follow up on the “global warming” chapter. It felt out of date compared to the science being cited today- even the fact that most scientists now refer to it as “climate change” was a stark clue that this book must be at least a few years old.
Love this book's take on how our economy works, or doesn't work depending.... Makes the role of economics in our lives much more fascinating than I expected.
Interesting but dated. The breathless admiration of Intellectual Ventures makes the authors come off sort like a 2009 prototype of Elon Musk fanboys, but otherwise, explores some fascinating topics with a fun economics lens applied.
More political and more "Chicago economics" than the first one. What I like most is the insistence on sound and creative methodologies to test possible causal relations concerning human behaviour. Unfortunately, in the last chapters, the book becomes more of a personal view on things, in stead of a very strict scientific way of testing a hypothesis. Still very interesting though, especially if you have also read Daniel Kahneman.