Freakonomics

How much time would you spend to find out that most of the ideas you have, “conventional wisdom” is another way of putting it, were wrong?

Leavitt and Dubner put this book together because the former is a peculiar sort of economist and the latter is a fair-to-middling journalist, and they didn’t want to tempt fate by refusing to work together. Their publisher thought the book should be classified as a “business” book, but it is anything but that.

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Intellectual Morons: How Ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas

Daniel Flynn could have easily titled this book The Iconoclast’s Bible. In his discussion of each of the “icons” that he “clasts” he meticulously examines what they have said and compares it to what they have done. None of the various people and their ideas can escape the rigorous peeling back of the onionskin that has been carefully laid over their sayings and doings.

If you wish to read  my complete comments on this book, as well as comments on 64 other books then you can find all of them in "Book Blogs," available on Amazon in either softcover or digital:
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