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SuperFreakonomicsGlobal Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

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SuperFreakonomics

By: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

Narrarated by: Stephen J. Dubner

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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10.29.09
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen Dubner, SuperFreakonomics
2009 | Label: HarperAudio

More unlikely numbers from the rogue economics super-sleuths
As of this writing, SuperFreakonomics is spinning in the eye of a Category 2 controversy. Maybe Cat 3. A follow-up to 2005′s immensely popular Freakonomics, this new collection of everyday mysteries explored by “rogue economist” Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner has drawn fire for its fun and imaginative passages on climate change. The Steves, as you might expect, take a by-the-numbers, economics-minded approach, and their “it’ll-be-fine” findings certainly butt heads with the doomsday prophesies of Al Gore and other esteemed minds in the field. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Who knows. Are child-seats really less safe than seatbelts for kids two and up? Is it really more dangerous to walk drunk than drive drunk? Dubner and Levitt make strong, smart cases for all their bold assertions; your call whether you wanna act on them. Other topics include polluting cows, environmentally unfriendly trees, seasonal prostitutes, cheapskate suicide bombers and the ecological upside of kangaroo farts.

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Well done

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I enjoyed the book, I like the approach used by Freakonomics, it makes the field come to life. Be forewarned that they take a contrarian view of the whole issue of Global Warming. This will not make them many friends in today's atmosphere, but they bring a well-argued point of view to the debate that needs to be heard. Worth a download for sure.

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