Super freakonomics global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
(2009)
By:
Levitt, Steven D
Nonfiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/330/LEVITT,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N. Y. : Harperluxe, 2009
EDITION
First Harperluxe edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 388 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780061927577, 0061927570
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