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I don’t think this book was as interesting as the first one, maybe because the style and topics weren’t so novel the second time, but it still had some interesting tidbits!
I would listen to Levitt and Dubner talk about LITERALLY anything. Love.
informative
fast-paced
Thoroughly enjoyable, just like the first book. Highly recommend if you're curious about how people respond to incentives and what motivates people to behave a certain way. The book also flipped my understanding of climate change upside down as it mentions cost-effective and realistic solutions I had never heard of before. Great read!
Sometimes sloppy or inconclusive science treated as determined, but very enjoyable and interesting.
Not quite as good as the first one, but the part on global warming was really interesting.
Enjoyed the first one, but this was a huge disappointment. The first book was a stretch on 'economics' and causality, but in a humorous and enjoyable manner. I felt this one covered less topics, less well, with 100% more bullshit. It simply strayed too far from actual economics for my tastes. Not that I didn't realize the first one was propaganda, but this doesn't even try to hide it.
Not as good as the original. It was more rambly and cobbled. Some interesting info but not really worth the read.
I liked this book a lot. It read much more smoothly than Freakonomics and I enjoyed the topics greatly.
My only real criticism as of right now is the decision to include a small plug about circumcision at the end of the book without any expansion of the concept and only using one study to do so. As heated a topic as circumcision is, I don't think it should be treated so flippantly and passively in a book where most of the other topics have been thoroughly researched.
My only real criticism as of right now is the decision to include a small plug about circumcision at the end of the book without any expansion of the concept and only using one study to do so. As heated a topic as circumcision is, I don't think it should be treated so flippantly and passively in a book where most of the other topics have been thoroughly researched.
I was loving this book until the topic of the environment and climate change. This is an area I have studied and am fairly well educated in... I felt like the author had so much wrong information on this topic that it made me doubt the validity of the rest of the book.
Sustainability isn't about preventing the temperature of the earth from rising... how much it focused on this was ridiculous. A straw to the sky?
Sustainability isn't about preventing the temperature of the earth from rising... how much it focused on this was ridiculous. A straw to the sky?