Freakonomics Economics Meets Journalism Freakonomics is a book that analyzes practical issue of the World as we know it today through the eyes of a rogue economist and a journalist Steven D Levitt who is the economist does not necessarily enjoy the math of economics but rather the stories that come from certain data He loves to pinpoint and analyze unusual data to come up with answers for some of the wildest questions we can think of like What do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common