Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was free during an Oct 2014 promotion from Barnes and Noble when I downloaded it to my Nook library.
Here are eight take-aways from the book:

1. Incentives are cornerstones of modern life.
2. Knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, can make a complicated world less so.
3.The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
4. Dramatics effects often have distant, even subtle, causes.
5.Correlation does not equal causality.
6. It is easy to let your biases color your view of the world.
7. It is tempting to run with the herd as we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
8. Too busy to think.

I recommend it only to readers who find its topics interesting.

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