An interesting view on economics that provide many supporting details on how incentives drive the world. Freakonomics has no main topic and goes above and beyond in explaining and backing up all the topics he discusses from why drug dealers still live with their moms to how sumo wrestlers and school teachers are similar.
I believe that the author wrote this book to break all the bias views on what effects our world.
There was no passage that initially came out to be very interesting to me but how he describes incentives and how it affects people really caught my attention.
My book groups had a very long and interesting conversation on how a child should be raised and we all came to an agreement that a child shouldn't be punished for everything they do, but they also shouldn't be given freedom to do whatever they want. There needs to be a balance of the two to show the child that there are some negative incentives to doing bad things and vice versa.
While the book was very interesting I found that the wealth of information was a bit overwhelming. They presented so many facts that it was hard to keep up with them while at the same time complete the assignments given to us.
Freakonomics was a very simple yet complicated book presenting many words that I didn't understand, but helped broaden my vocabulary with the new words. The language had no effect on my group as we all understood his message for each chapter and continued to have very interesting conversations
Overall I would recommend this book to a friend because honestly I feel that this book would have been more enjoyable to me if I didn't need to retain the information and create summaries on the whole book for a grade.
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