num_pages: 242
description: "In an age of too much wishful, faith-based conventional wisdom on the right and left, and too much intellectual endeavor squeezed into prefab ideological containers, Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way. Levitt and Dubner suss out all kinds fo surprising truths --sometimes important ones, sometimes merely fascinating ones --by means of a smart, deep, rigorous, open-minded consideration of facts, with a fearless disregard for whom they might be upsetting. This is bracing fun of the highest order" -Kurt Andersen
language: English
title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
titlecomplete: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
genres: Audiobook, Politics, Science, Finance, Economics, Psychology, Social Science, Nonfiction, Business, Sociology
ratings_count: 833350
series: Freakonomics
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Financial Times Business Book of the Year
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Business
publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins