This was such a refreshing, stimulating book with provocative ponderings; I had to write it up. Levitt is an economist at the University of Chicago; Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist. They collaborated to explore the economics of real-world issues often viewed as insignificant, such as the extent to which the Roe v. Wade decision affected violent crime, and examine hidden incentives behind all sorts of human behavior. Some obscure questions Levitt attempts to explain and measure are:
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents matter?
Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?
How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?
His answers are hilarious and thought-provoking. The reading level is easy enough to be accessible to all readers interested in asking questions about the “hidden side of everything.”
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