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Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
William Morrow
November 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 0060889578
EAN: 9780060889579
Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a
worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in
thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the
world. Now, 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. Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only
the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more
dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is
chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective?
Can a sex change boost your salary? 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?
Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?
How much good do car seats do?
What's the best way to catch a terrorist?
Did TV cause a rise in crime?
What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have
in common?
Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?
Can eating kangaroo save the planet?
Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling
like no one else, whether investigating a solution to
global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has
fallen so drastically. 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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