February 10, 2006
Pop Goes the Econ
I spent the summer of 1992 reading economics textbooks at my girlfriend's house, to nobody's great satisfaction. I was about to begin my studies of philosophy, politics, and economics and had a long reading list from the dons at Oxford. There wasn't a single popular economics book on it, for the excellent reason that no obvious candidate existed.
How times have changed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (William Morrow, 2005), now with a million
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