<p>“When I tell people I want to major in econ they usually ask right away, “Have you read Freaknonomics?”.”</p>
<p>And you can probably just reply that “Freakonomics” is a catchy name for some extraordinarily basic economic axioms - pop science custom-engineered for the bestseller charts 
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<p>Seriously, “Naked Economics” is much better and, you know, not ghost-written.</p>