Freakonomics

Assume nothing, question everything.

This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner''s rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone''s view of the world upside-down and became an international multi-million-copy-selling phenomenon.

''Prepare to be dazzled'' Malcolm Gladwell

''A sensation ... you''ll be st...