I'm not sure how Freakonomics got on my radar, but it falls squarely into the Gladwell and Surowiecki school of writing that take a look at conventional subjects and turn them on their ears with reasonably well-argued cases, which I enjoy.

Figuring out how incentives influence behavior has interested me since reading Naked Economics over a year ago, and Freakonomics seemed--like Naked Economics--that it would be a fun read.

While Dubner's and Levitt present interesting correlations between things like Roe v. Wade and the radical crime drop in the 1990s, their theories are often speculative. Still, it's a fun read, it encouraged me to think about the radical correlations they were drawing, and it reminded me--as if I need reminding!--that it's important to question the conventional wisdom about cause and effect relationships every so often.