Super freakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
(2009)
By:
Levitt, Steven D
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
330/LEVITT,S
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PUBLISHED
New York : William Morrow, 2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780060889579 (acid-free paper), 0060889578 (acid-free paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: 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? -- Epilogue: Monkeys are people too
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives