Monday, July 11, 2005
Reading Freakonomics
I started reading the hideously named Freakonomics over coffee this morning and am having fun with it. Ever since reading Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson over two decades ago, I've enjoyed good economics writing for its concise ability to use the obvious to overturn the conventional. Levitt's analysis of incentives and supporting statistics to clearly demonstrate widespread corruption in sumo wrestling was wonderful.
