Last weekend I did some thing I haven't done in a long time, read a novel from cover to cover in under two days. The book in question was Freakoncomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner which I got for my birthday. Having studied finance I've had a big enough taste of economics the know how much fun it can be1 and this book confirms it. Economics can be applied to anything and heaps of really cool observations can be made.
Freakonomics uses interesting questions to give you a lesson in economics and teach you something you might ... more
