Economically Speaking

In 2005, I became an economics major. It was before the publication of the now famous Freakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. The book arguably elevated the social science to a sort of trendy twenty-first century hot topic by applying age-old theory to new ideas. When it came out I bought it right away, in hardcover, presumably for an exorbitant price and read it in a day. While the essays themselves are compelling, in the introduction I found the most concise explanation for my love of the dismal science I have ever found:

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