"Freakonomics"

[fiefoe]

This book is the fruit of a mutual admiration society comprising Stephen Dubner and the 'heralded' young economist Steve Levitt. It would have made excellent reading for my old Econ 103. ('Economics is, at root, the study of incentives.' ; 'its most primal aim: explaining how people get what they want.')

So far my favorite story is the bagel data. 'Worst are the holidays.'

__ "He's twenty-six years old. Why does he need to have a unifying theme?" [Robert Nozick]
__ As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
__ It was the economist Milton Friedman who helped come up with a solution to this one: automatic tax withholding from employees' paychecks.

Jon Corzine, http://www.hookersandjohns.com/ (no such thing yet)

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