Finally Done With Freakonomics!

I have finally finished Freakonomics and I can honestly say that I enjoyed reading this book. It was very interesting and put an... interesting perspective on everyday life. So Chapter 6, A Roshanda By Any Other Name, focused on how what a child is named correlates with thier parent's income and what hopes they have for the child. It told the story of a father who named one of his sons Winner and the other Loser, just based off of feeling he had during the pregnancy. In the end, however, Loser became a cheif policeman and Winner became a criminal. Then the chapter listed the popular names based on income and education and which names were correlated with high income and success in the future. It explained name trend cycels, where the names the high end people use trickel down to the low income people and then go out of style.

I could draw some parallels from this chapter and some of the stuff that we learned in class, like how as demand of a product, or name, goes up, the price, or "quailty" of the name goes down. All in all, I felt that he book helped me to look at everyday choices and see how that when you choose, you loose.