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Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America, and reading Freakonomics is like going for a leisurely walk with him on a sunny summer day as he waves his fingers in the air and turns everything you once thought to be true inside out. Prepare to be dazzled.

Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink

Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America, and reading Freakonomics is like meeting him at a cocktail party that you only went to because your friend dragged you along, but she’s been chatting up this guy all night, and you find out this Levitt guy is an economist so you say, “Oh my god! That stuff is so fascinating.” And you ask him what kind of work he does, and he tries to explain to you but it quickly becomes painfully clear to both of you that you don’t actually understand any of the concepts he’s working with, so you guys kind of awkwardly smile for a couple seconds and he excuses himself to get a drink—and then his dickshit writer friend, Dubner, sidles up, claps one arm over Levitt’s shoulder, looks you in the eye and says, “This guy is the smartest man in America.” And he starts telling you all this crazy bullshit about sumo wrestlers and like, crack dealers, and you’re not exactly sure what the point is but he’s actually kind of cute, if a little New York (you know what I mean), so you guys eventually end up going back to his studio walkup on the West Side and have awkward, unfulfilling sex.