Review: More Sex is Safer Sex
Agreed.
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg is a better read than Freakonomics, but not quite as good as The Undercover Economist.
A tasty morsel:
Though Dickens might not have recognized it, the primary moral of A Christmas Carol is that there should be no limit on IRA contributions.
One bone to pick:
I haven’t checked into any follow up Landsburg has done on this work, but I think he needs to revisit his assumptions about obesity. For example, he asks “Do big meals cause obesity or does obesity cause big meals?”
As one who has read Fast Food Nation and Fat Land, fast food companies increased porition sizes before the obesity epidemic struck and then took great measures to make sure the American consumer would eat more of these larger poritions.
Landsburg wants to take Big Food (McDonalds, ADM, etc.) off the hook, but the record suggests they played a part in the rise of obesity.
Categorized as books, money
I loved “Freakonomics” — good review and great insight on the “obesity/big meals” argument. I prefer to think of myself as just “big boned.”