Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Book Review: Changed my view of the world
Summary: 4 Stars
I believe that the author is trying to help others in the world through writing this book. Steven Levitt is currently a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Levitt is a well known economist around the world with many supporters. Stephen Dubner is a journalist who has written a lot about his co author, Levitt. I think he accomplished his goal very well in writing this book. But sometimes their claims seem a bit far fetched. For example, in this book they claim that swimming pools are more dangerous than guns to our children. Otherwise they gave us acceptable claims which could help us in our daily lives. Moreover, another crazy claim was that bees are more dangerous than sharks. I have always thought that more people died by shark attacks than by bees stinging them. Most of these claims even though full with spin, are very amusing to the average day Joe.Book Review: Not as great as I had expected
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book as I had heard great reviews about it. After reading countless reviews I bought it. I was a little disappointed. I personally dont believe that abortion rates can be connected with crime rates. That is quite a far reach, and in the book i don't believe it is properly explained. Secondly the author tried to show the similarities between the KKK and real estate brokers. Again, a far reach. Overall i think my expectations were too high, but if you want to buy it... Go ahead.Book Review: Two Thumbs Up!
Summary: 4 Stars
Freakonomics is the most interesting and informative book I have ever read. In this book, it discusses extensive research that the two authors, Stephen B. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have found. Anything from teachers cheating to the house market can be found in the book. The authors show throughout the book that numbers don't lie about anything. It can be confusing at times and is very challenging to understand the vocabulary and research. I would recommend this to anyone who likes finding facts about everyday things. I enjoyed it because It was an easy read that I just couldn't put down. After finishing the book, I felt like I had learned so many new things. I give Freakonomics two thumbs up. Book Review: Useless
Summary: 2 Stars
Perhaps I am doing something wrong with the font size. The bolded words mentioned in the text are not bold on the Kindle. The tables do not work in the Kindle format.
Can I get my money back?
Book Review: Don't waste your money on this!
Summary: 2 Stars
Abortion is largely responsible for the drop in the crime rate!
Real estate agents will sell your house for less than his/her own.
There it is, the only shreds of value in the entire book!
This book is mostly an exercise in patience, with admittedly no central theme. This turns out being just a series of data, with little or no useful information for the layman.
Listening to the the data was painfully like reading a spreadsheet aloud.
The World is Flat cost far less and although I already read it, was far more interesting and revealing than this.
I applaud people who keep track of miscellaneous information hoping it will amount to something someday, but this book does not.
My purchase motivation was to peer into the criminal mind, but I ended up cursing at the cd player when the long list of baby names kept going on and on.
Buying this was a very poor choice, I hope you don't have to experience it.
Regards,
Mike