Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Superfreakonomics

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Paperback. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 412 Seiten
ISBN 0061927570
EAN 9780061927577
Veröffentlicht Dezember 2013
Verlag/Hersteller Harperluxe
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Beschreibung

Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies.
Now Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that this freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.
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.

Portrait

Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most influential American economist under forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.
Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning journalist and radio and TV personality, has worked for the New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio and Tell Me Something I Don't Know.