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Books like Freakonomics
A playful, data-driven dismantling of conventional wisdom that makes you question everything you thought you knew about how the world works. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Freakonomics.
- intellectually stimulating
- surprising
- playful
- mind-expanding
- 01
Superfreakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A playful, data-driven joyride that flips conventional wisdom on its head and reveals the hidden gears of human behavior.
- 02
When to Rob a Bank
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A delightfully irreverent romp through the hidden incentives and bizarre data points that secretly govern our everyday lives.
- 03
Discover Your Inner Economist
Tyler Cowen
A pragmatic and intellectually stimulating guide to hacking the hidden incentives that drive our daily lives.
- 04
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2000
An engaging, anecdote-fueled exploration of the hidden forces that cause ideas and behaviors to catch fire.
- 05
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
A playful, eye-opening tour through the hidden forces that secretly pull the strings of our daily decisions.
- 06
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
An engaging journey that dismantles the myth of the self-made genius to reveal the hidden forces behind extraordinary success.
- 07
Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler
A witty, eye-opening tour through the delightfully irrational quirks of human decision-making.
- 08
Soccernomics
Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
A clever, myth-busting exploration that strips away the romanticism of the beautiful game to reveal the fascinating, counterintuitive logic running beneath the pitch.
- 09
Fooled by randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2001
A provocative, intellectual cold shower that shatters your illusions of control and makes you question every success story you have ever heard.
- 10
Drive
Daniel H. Pink
A paradigm-shifting exploration of human behavior that leaves you feeling energized to redesign how you work and live.
- 11
The big short
Michael Lewis
A darkly hilarious, dread-inducing front-row seat to the hubris that broke the global economy.
- 12
Perfectly irrational
Dan Ariely
A playful, eye-opening tour through the hidden quirks and cognitive blind spots that secretly run our lives.
