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Entertaining
Customers find the book highly entertaining and enjoyable with its fast-paced, humorous writing style, making it an engaging read from start to finish. The short entries add to the overall appeal of the book.
Logical Thinking
Customers generally praise the logical thinking and witty insights presented in the book, with some noting its connection to real-life complexities and the authors' ability to challenge conventional wisdom. However, a few express disappointment for what they perceive as a less rigorous approach compared to previous works.
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Quality
From the outset, there's plenty of substance in the compiled material, all of which manages to say something meaningful, in one... Read More
In particular, the book provides a great study in logistics, and the incredible complexity and nuance of life (as well as how i... Read More
Ingenious and likely, nearly unlimited potential; total win-win!
Unlike freakonomics, the material was broken into sections.
Price
There is, i believe, much value in gaining such perspective, from the theoretical to the practical, and the authors use this un... Read More
This did a terrible job of helping me gain the millions i thought i would from my hometown bank.
Competitiveness
The writing is similar to "freakonomics", in that it's fast-paced and humorous, and if you liked that book, you'll like this one.
In their usual style, dubner and levitt share bits of economist musings that were posted to their blog.
It is similar to freakanomics but all different stories.
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- This product had a total of 2,334 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 22 2024.
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While the topics were timely when they were written not all of them aged well
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Some of the presumptions turned out to be wrong i suspect that is true of all of us
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If you are new to levitt and dubner don’t read this now or probably in the future
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Lots of stats to back up the stories
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Never but thats not going to stop bank robbers
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I didnt enjoy reading this as much as the 2 freakinomics books
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Took several months to get it
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So long i forgot i ordered it
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