Under The Fridge

Based purely on an Amazon recommendation, I just bought and read “Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner.

Freakonomics is a look at various behaviours, how people respond to incentives and an examination of heaps of data about interesting things to find correlations and causations.

It’s not as geeky as it sounds, and I found it really interesting.

Some of the causations they suggest are likely to be controversial (and therefore ignored) but seem really plausible to me. For example noting that there’s a very significant drop in crime 20 years after a country/state legalizes abortion.

Pretty much exactly the kind of book I like to read, and really quite readable. Recommended to anyone who likes to think about why people behave the way they do.

- Colin

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