Books don’t get reviewed here very often but when something that crosses the insight of Freakonomics with the subject of sports, you’ve got a potential winner on your hands. The topics of the Freakonomics books have always taken some kind of conventional understanding and turned it on its head.  Whether it was the connection of [...]

Want to win a free book?  Read on.  Believe you can’t get anything for free?  Stay away! I’m very excited to be doing another giveaway on Weakonomics.  This time it’s an updated version of SuperFreakonomics, you can read my review of SuperFreakonomics Illustrated Edition to learn more about the book. There are three ways to [...]

Longtime readers of Weakonomics know that I am a huge fan of Freakonomics.  Not only have I read both books, but I regularly read their blog and they now have a podcast too (and there was that movie).  And I won’t pretend to claim Weakonomics was inspired in a dream.  The names are similar.  But [...]

Nudge, is a book very much in the vein of Predictably Irrational or The Economic Naturalist.  It’s the idea (in layman’s terms) that people are inherently stupid.  We make bad decisions.  Some books just make these observations, but Nudge is a complete package.  It’s: you make bad decisions, they are hard to avoid, here’s how [...]

My wife, (The Sheconomist) discovered Dave Barry the other night. I haven’t heard her laugh so hard in a long time. The laughs are similar to the ones heard in the family car on trips in my youth because my entire family loves Dave Barry. She’s definitely earned the last name “Weakonomist”. If you haven’t [...]

Back in the early days of 2008, I had one reader, me. But I wrote some good stuff back then, things I hope to start talking about again soon. One of my favorite things to do was read and review books, but I don’t have any time to read anymore. In fact, I don’t have [...]

Though I started Nudge last year, I’ve just now resumed reading it. If you’ve already read the book this subject should be familiar. If you haven’t read the book, you should. The only warning is that it’s written by academics, and they never seem to strike the balance between good reading and good material (Freakonomics [...]

If you were around back when I published my review of Freakonomics, you probably know that I’m a huge fanboy of these authors. Not only that but I freely admit that the name “Weakonomics” was inspired by their play on the word “economics”. So naturally I was stoked to learn that the authors of Freakonomics [...]