An easy read and mildly interesting, it wasn't as mind blowing as it was hyped up to be, i was really intrigued by how the author could possibly link sumo wrestling to teaching, and abortion to crime rates, etc., but after reading Freakonomics i realized that anyone could come to the same conclusions that the author did if they just talked (or thought) in a large enough circle. Each chapter reminded me of the "6 degrees of separation" or more accurately "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon", in that there's really nothing incredible about being able to name actors who have associated with, or worked on projects with other actors that have worked with Kevin Bacon. Same with this book, there's nothing insightful about being able to compound 30 different economic theories and ideas to eventually relate two seemingly completely different objects. Essentially if you list enough ideas together you can connect pretty much anything, like nuclear war to fruit consumption, or abortion to crime rates as examples. All in all it was interesting, and as a quick read not a total waste of time, it just didn't reveal to me anything i couldn't come up with myself. I was just dissapointed when i wasn't hit between the eyes with a mind blowing idea or startling economic theory that would help disect the world around us. Maybe i missed something, or maybe i'm way smarter than i think i am...