February 10, 2006

Pop Goes the Econ

By TIM HARFORD

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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