Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt (2005, Hardcover)

It is all how you look at it: If you are an economist you will find this to be dribble and if you are a college-prep teenager you will find this life changing. We teach financial education to teenager’s everyday and we use some of these topics as a way to introduce macroeconomic sized questions to high school seniors. It is a nice clean way to string a series of individual items that seemed unrelated into a new picture. That is what teaching macroeconomics is really about. Besides, getting most people to sign on for theoretical conversations is not very likely and this is just wacky enough to engage a classroom, a party, or a book club. This is a must-read for POP culture anyway. Here is our one stop statement: It is worth reading, but it is not here to make you into Einstein; it is just here to make the average human brain function and follow along a topic at a macroeconomics level.

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