I suppose this look is a good 18 months late. I finally got around to borrowing the book and reading it. I just couldn't convince myself to buy it.
In short, I found a few bits of economic commentary surrounded by a great deal of statistics. As I saw stated elsewhere, 'if you can only read one economics book this year, make it a different one.' ;-)
More seriously, assuming you haven't already read them, your time would be much better spent reading Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson and/or Sowell's Basic Economics.
Misc.:
Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (free PDF)
Freakonomics at Amazon
Freakonomics reviewed at Mises.org
Most Over-Hyped Economics Book of 2005
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Monday, January 01, 2007
Quick Book Review: Freakonomics
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I think I read somewhere that a few of the studies were wrong or innacurate.
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