Freakonomics LC Letter (part 3)

France (FDC), Ming (MSG), and Brandon (B. FOK),
The last part of the book Freakonomics was pretty good. Some new topics came up that were very interesting and some that were not as interesting. As france pointed out the parenting thing came up. Race came into play and also parents selecting which schools appealed to their children's learning styles. When i read about the selection of schools by parents i thought of a discussion we all had in english. Sutherland was talking about how if you live in an area with good school's the property tax goes up. In the book this brings up the point that if you live in a nicer area the schools are probably better and the same for the poorer areas.

I think that Freakonomics was overall excellent. I would love to read the second book which i believe is called SuperFreakonomics. I looked it up and i read some reviews about is such as this one:
“This book is a lot like Freakonomics, but better… Levitt and Dubner have a gift for explaining precisely how a researcher discovers something. Their epilogue, on Keith Chen’s attempts to introduce currency to a monkey society, is a model of how to tell a gripping story of scientific research without compromising on accuracy.”
—FINANCIAL TIMES

I also saw online that there was a Freakonomics blog up. I was very interested in this book so i started to read and it is really just like the book. It just extends topics to an extent no one would think about. I will post the link to the blog as one of the comments but i really would recommend the book to anyone. If we do another lit circle i suggest SuperFreakonomics because i thought Freakonomics was good so why not read the sequel. There is not much to say about the book here but i would love to discuss about the book with you guys during class if we get time to do so.