Superfreakonomics : : Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and why Suicide Bombers Should buy Life Insurance

Locations
Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Business & Economics / General / Levitt, Steven D
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Business & Economics / General / Levitt, Steven D	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Business & Economics / General / Levitt, Steven D	4-week checkout	Due 04-30-2024

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.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Freakonomics 2.0 submitted by pmysore on August 7, 2011, 12:31pm I didnt enjoy this as much as the first version, but it continues in the same tradition of exploring the economic side of everything from everyday life.

ok submitted by poptart887 on August 28, 2016, 9:00am I didnt enjoy this much

Interesting ideas submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 20, 2017, 8:07am What I loved about this book: just like _Freakonomics_, it researches interesting ideas and links them with surprising other topics. It's fun and worth the read.

What I didn't love about this book (sarcasm ahead!): Oooo, economists have discovered motivation. Oooo, economists have discovered social pressure. Oooo, economists have discovered abuse of power. Congratulations. You've discovered the already well-established field of social psychology.

Very Self-Aware submitted by Meginator on August 22, 2017, 8:44pm I love the premise of Freakonomics (that is, looking at curious everyday phenomena through the lens of economics), but the authors seem too eager to jump to radical conclusions. Just like in the first book, they reach for the extraordinary without considering simpler possible explanations. Correlation, after all, is not causation. This book, like its predecessor, may encourage readers to look at the world slightly askance (a good thing!), but I remain somewhat skeptical about many of their conclusions.

af submitted by yongmeiqin on July 15, 2019, 2:47pm asd

Wow submitted by ann arbor air on June 12, 2021, 2:13pm Pretty cool book