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Freakonomics Book Review by Brent Leonard |
FREAKONOMICS By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner As Reviewed by Brent Leonard, co-editor TSAA Review This runaway best-seller almost lives up to its hype of "dazzling" the reader with well-documented anecdotes of "Conventional Wisdom", the term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith several decades ago, but even more apropos now. The authors cite, for example, homeless advocate Mitch Snyder's statement that 45 homeless die on the U.S. every second, a number when extended, would be over 1 Billion per year.
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