It seems that the Freakonomics guys aren’t the only ones practicing "freaky economics."  Check out this Wall Street Journal piece that links to several interesting, non-traditional applications for economics.

The coolest part to me is that my alma-mater, George Mason University, is home to the economics department from which the author hails.  GMU’s first Nobel laureate was an econ-guy at the school, and as further proof that my wife is the brains in the family, she was an Econ major.  I, of course, was an English-Lit major which had a decidedly less, um, rigorous curriculum.