Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

"The title of the book that I'm talking about is Freakonomics. It's an interesting compilation of a bunch of different examples. In the introduction, they talk about how it is so eclectic and just picks random different things that the author, who's this brilliant economist, was interested in.

I would probably recommend it to about anybody, especially somebody who worked in social services, just because they touch on a lot of different issues, like the abortion legalization and teacher cheating and a bunch of other stuff. They talked about like names and whether that necessarily means that if you're named one thing as opposed to another, like are you destined for greatness versus failure. So it was just a -- I thought it was a really interesting way to look at things, and so really anybody I think could get a lot out of it.

I thought it was well put together, and the economist who came up with all of the ideas worked together with the writer, which made it a lot more accessible to someone who's maybe not so familiar with economy and math and things like that. So I really enjoyed it."

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