Freakonomics

Interesting book illustrating what is economics and how the real world looks like. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner got together and come up with this crazy idea of writing a book describing crazy behavioral economics. They expose pretty insane questions and made them so interesting and amusing for the reader to follow, and look into the world and surrounding with another set of eyes.

Conventional wisdom has been discussed in to the details within this book. How it has been introduced, and how misleading it can be within the society. There are plenty of data analysis and study resulted has been provided to articulate the issues.

Causation vs correlation also has been demonstrated in to the details. What people believed can be causation of an incident has been proved to be just correlation in hindsight, with pretty nice examples.

Another accept of the book are the crazy questions exposed by the authors, such as; which one is more dangerous swimming pool or gun for a kid in a house?, why drug-dealers are living with their parents?, what are the relationships of existence of many books in the house and smartness and success of a kid?, is abortion lower the rate of the crime? All these questions have been discussed in to the details. The more the question is analyzed the more interesting it get.