Superfreakonomics CD: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Levitt, Steven D; Dubner, Stephen J

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9780060889357: Superfreakonomics CD: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

ISBN 10: 0060889357 ISBN 13: 9780060889357

Publisher: HarperAudio, 2009

Paperback. Pub Date: October 2009 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Harper of The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics. was a worldwide sensation. Selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages ??and changing the way we look at the world Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics. and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder. funnier. and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again. exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa What do hurricanes. heart attacks. and highway deaths have in common Can eating kangaroo save the planet Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives. they show the world for what it reall...

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Review:

Like Freakonomics, but better . . . thrilling . . . you are guaranteed a good time . . . underneath the dazzle, there is substance too (Tim Harford, Financial Times )

Levitt is a master at drawing counter-intuitive conclusions . . . great fun . . . Superfreakonomics travels further than its predecessor (Tom Standage, Sunday Times )

A humdinger of a book: page-turning, politically incorrect and ever-so-slightly intoxicating, like a large swig of tequila (The Times )

One of the most important books you'll read this autumn (GQ )

Levitt and Dubner's zeal for statistical anomalies is as undimmed as their eye for a good story . . . lie back and let Levitt and Dubner's bouncy prose style carry you along from one peculiarity to the next (Sunday Telegraph )

There's material here not just for one conversation, but for several.The authors mash together interesting academic research, surprising historical comparisons . . . and cute factoids

(Daily Mail )

[Freakonomics] was fascinating . . . [SuperFreakonomics] is similarly studded with intriguing examples of economic analysis in action (Daily Telegraph )

Entertaining (BBC Focus )

From the Back Cover:

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world.

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:

How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?
What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?
Can eating kangaroo save the planet?

Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is—good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over—but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.

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