What a shame about that title. "Frea-konomics" is bound to dampen the spirits of any intelligent reader, suggesting an airport-ready, dumbed-down romp-the back cover would inevitably call it a romp—through the bogus theories of some semi-literate phoney economist. But that is not this book at all. Steven Levitt is no "rogue economist", still less a phoney one; and his book, praise be, does not try to explore "the hidden side of everything". Far more intelligent, modest and orthodox than it pretends, the book is a delight; it educates, surprises and amuses. It shows, in fact, what plain old-fashioned economics can do in the hands of a boundlessly curious and superbly skilled practitioner.
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