| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 270 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-256) and index. |
| Contents |
How is a street prostitute like a department-store santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The chlorine solution and the jellyfish fix -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue : monkeys are people too. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies. Now Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics.... SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What's the best way to catch a terrorist? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Are people hardwired for altruism or selfishness? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? 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. |
| Subject |
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
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Economics -- Psychological aspects. |
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects. |
| Added Author |
Dubner, Stephen J.
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| ISBN |
9780060889579 |
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0060889578 |
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