{"id":62,"date":"2005-06-10T04:03:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T04:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/10\/freakonomics\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:21:40","slug":"freakonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/06\/10\/freakonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Freakonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-62\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/006073132X\/qid=1118401065\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Steven%20D.%20Levitt\">Steven D. Levitt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Stephen%20J.%20Dubner\">Stephen J. Dubner<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Hardcover: <\/strong>256 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>William Morrow (May 1, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>006073132X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book is a fun read.  It purports to be about nothing and everything, and its probably pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>While some of the statements are probably over blown, the underlying concepts seems to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economics impact everything,<\/li>\n<li>Its not always clear what the impact of an inducement or even a change might really be, and<\/li>\n<li>Things aren&#8217;t always as they seem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be reminded of those things now and again&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-62\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 62);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-62\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-62\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: William Morrow (May 1, 2005) ISBN: 006073132X This book is a fun read. It purports to be about nothing and everything, and its probably pretty close. While some of the statements are probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,357],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-economics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}