Freakonomics

Currently reading this very, very interesting book called Freakonomics: A rogue economists explores the hidden side of everything. Yes, I know...an economic book?! What? But trust me, it is quite useful. For example, the author explains what Chicago public school teachers and Japanese sumo wrestlers have in common, as well as what urban black gangs and Mcdonalds have in common. The first ones cheat and the last one both set up their organizations in the same way to create profits. Of course that is a very short summary, it is quite more detailed than that. He, or they I should say, even claim that the legalization of abortion is what led to a steep decline in the crime rate during the early nineties....I still have to finish that chapter. Now, I like the non-partisan approach to this, the facts speak for themselves regardless of politics and other biases. So pick it up for some useful and mind-expanding reading.