Freakonomics: Most Blogged About Book of 2005

By Michael Huang on December 19, 2005 6:19 AM | 0 Comments

New York Times: Most Blogged about books in 2005

Number one isn't Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It's actually a book calledFreakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. More details, including excerpts of the book are available onFreakonomics Author's Blog. It also happens to be #3 in Amazon's Top Sellers
The book is about the hidden economic side of cerain decisions - for instance, the author claims that backyard swimming pools are more dangerous than guns to children, and that a side effect of the Roe v. Wade decision is a reduction in violent crime rate. It definitely sounds lik an an interesting book I'll have to read.

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