Moving from science to economics now, as part of my independent reading for the next few weeks and months. I have selected Freakonomics, a book that seeks to explain the inner workings of everything to do with the business world and beyond. It should be an interesting read, since I am eager to understand what goes on behind the scenes of economic and business, even though that inner side might by exemplification of unfairness. Early pages show a huge amount of data and statistics present in the book, and it will be interesting to see how the authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, weave those devices into the prose to show the hidden side of everything. In some ways, it is somewhat similar to my previous book, since The Fabric of the Cosmos also dealt with hidden parts of our universe. However, Freakonomics will be interesting because of its take on socioeconomic issues of our time.
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