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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)

Array (Paperback) William Morrow Paperbacks 2009-08-25
Release date: 2009-08-25

Freakonomics
Economist
Everything


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I really need some help with finding out weather it is faster to read a bo then to listen to an audio book?

I need to read more, and by the way also comprehend it. So I am wondering weather using audio books are faster, or are they not? While on their titles they say unabridged, I am still not sure weather a book like say Freakonomics can be finished in 8 hours or Blink. If I was to read them it would defenitely cost me more time!
Therefore could it be me that read not so fast, as one can read in the audiobook.
When I try to read lloudly, it takes me even more time, I think!
Its confusing, I hope that someone out there has an answer to my question.


when you listen to a book you lose the ability to make notes in the margins or go back and do quick references to parts you may not understand. unabridged versions that you listen for enjoyment would be the exception to this, but if you're listening for comprehension for subjects or non-fiction like freakanomics then reading is the way to go.

2007-10-22 13:43:18 by MrWonderer

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    • Audio Book Review – Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J ...

    Steven D. Levitt is a University of Chicago economist who is more interested in economic choices and the psychology of decision-making, rather than dusty macroeconomic studies, stock market prediction or studies of inflation. In his own words, his main interests are cheating, corruption and crime. This is good, but academic studies are unlikely to make a good audio book, since technical material, especially mathematics is not well put across in the audio book domain.

    Fortunately, his co-author Stephen Dubner (a journalist, who also reads this audio book), is a dab hand at presenting complex statistical economic data in straightforward, plain English. Hence the book is an addictive listen, and very well suited to the format. Its an unabridged, unaltered (as far as I could tell) 7 hour long reading of the original printed book, published by penguin. He addresses questions as varied as whether Sumo wrestlers cheat (apparently they do), to more controversial questions such as whether legalizing abortion prevented a crime wave in the 1990s. The results are presented with a degree of certainty that probably is not appropriate to an academic text, but which makes the book a lot more interesting!

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