Title:
Super freakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance / Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.
ISBN:
9780060889586
9780061941221
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2011.
Physical Description:
xvii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
"New York Times bestseller"--Cover.
"The explosive follow-up to Freakonomics"--Cover.
"With new material, including 16 pages of color illustrations and an author Q & A"--Cover.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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." -- Publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.6 13.0 149075.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.6 13 149075.
Added Author:
Performer:
Narrator: Stephen J. Dubner (Amer.).
OCLC Number:
ocn727797362
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