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Superfreakonomics, global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

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Superfreakonomics

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Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

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 iś??good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. Freakonomics has been imitated many times oveŕ??but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match

Putting the freak in economics -- How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in -- and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Monkeys are people too

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Super freakonomics