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If you are ever in need of an entertaining read, I would highly recommend Freakonomics for many reasons. I enjoyed reading Freakonomics, and I think you would too. Freakonomics is a book written by economists, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, that “explores the hidden side of everything.”
One reason I would recommend Freakonomics is because it gives you a glimpse into economics without having to know anything about economics. As a person who has little knowledge on how the economy works, I understood the book with ease. Even though there was lots of data used throughout the entire book, I never felt lost in the numbers. Levitt and Dubner did a stellar job keeping the statistics side of their claims simple and easy for the average person,

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