Freakonomics

[Gordon Gecko]

I quite enjoyed the section on drug dealers

Q: Why do drug-dealers live with their mothers
A: Cos the are at the bottom of the pecking order and don't earn much money.

The rest of the chapter is padding.

I hate the way this guy is sold as some kind of revolutioary thinker. Not so, my friends, not so.

[snaw]

That bit by itself could have made quite an interesting novel...
... as long as it wasn't written by the over excitable authors of freakonomics

Isn't it being made (Or has been made) into a film? The drug dealer bit - sure I read that somewhere.

BTW I liked it. Also the bit on real estate dealers (i.e. they really are a bunch of sharks)

[Spacecadet]

I quite enjoyed the section on drug dealers

That bit by itself could have made quite an interesting novel...
... as long as it wasn't written by the over excitable authors of freakonomics

[ChimpMaster]

I quite enjoyed the section on drug dealers

[Gordon Gecko]

Basic applied microeconomics..... for dummies.

OMGZ.... who'd a thunk a girl called Precious-Cristal would be from a lower socio-economic group than someone called Victoria. And get this.... she will be less prosperous also.

A-mazing. Lolz.

[DiscoStu]

Terrible book, do not believe the hype

I quite enjoyed it...

[oracleslave]

Ditto "The book thief" I finished on the train this morning

[Spacecadet]

Terrible book, do not believe the hype