Freakonomics Critique This article was really confusing to read. I didn’t quite understand what was going on until about mid-way through the paper because of how it began. The title was How Freakonomics is Ruining the Dismal Science, but that title and anything related to the book itself, didn’t even show up in the article until it was nearing it’s end. How is an author going to write an article and only have around 4 sentences even related to the title? It’s extremely misleading and not likely to gain readers for future writing. Another mistake made was the use of a first person point of view. The first sentence was, “One of the few papers I actually read as a grad student was written by a pair of economists named John Angrist and Alan Krueger.”
