Steven D. Levitt

Stephen J. Dubner

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. It reveals, among other things: - Why you are more likely to be killed walking drunk than driving drunk - How a prostitute is more likely to sleep with a policeman than be arrested by one - Why terrorists might be easier to track down than you would imagine - How a sex change could boost your salary Because sometimes the most superfreaky solution is the simplest.

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Superfreakonomics

global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

Harrison Brown

Interesting, as Freakonomics was, but very short. As with Freakonomics, consider this book more entertainment than academic and rigorous.

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

SuperFreakonomics

Gavin

Contrarianism unbound by prior plausibility. Most chapters contain something wrong and/or harmful. e.g. the drunk-driving vs drunk-walking claim.
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I'm relatively fond of geoengineering, but their uncritical acceptance of Myhrvold's irreversible schtick is scary and foolish. 

A bit more reliable than Gladwell, but this isn't saying much.

Prashanth Srivatsa

Ridiculously flawed, stunningly entertaining.

Nelson Zagalo

I've written a long review about this book on my Blog in Portuguese.

Chris Aldrich

Not quite as interesting or as compelling as their first book, but worth the time. There seems to be a fair amount of overlapping material with parts of "The Rational Optimist."

Lance Willett

Love this kind of book: thought-provoking, questions things, bust myths. It doesn't delve deep, but it gets your brain juices flowing. Basic thing I got out of it: "in order to change the world, you first need to understand it."

Adam

Not as amazing as the first one, but tackling more interesting problems. If you listen to the Freakanomics podcast, most of this will be familiar.

Rui Zhi Dong

great bang value e.g. monkey prostitution

Ilia Markov

SuperFreakonomics is an amusing book which should NOT be taken too seriously. As literature it is lightly written with a big degree of fresh humor and it makes excellent reading (I listened to it in my car and it's really easy to concentrate and follow the authors' line).

It gives credit to Levitt and Dubner that they warn us against taking the book too seriously. Also, even in the introduction they mention that finding a unifying theme of the book might prove somewhat daunting task.

The problem comes from people who'd try to take the book too seriously - as a recipe for what governments ought to do and how we can solve global warming with some very simple, cheap and even wackier solutions.

Hemanth Soni

Sherry

Lucas Kohorst

Jeff Borton

Jenn Lee

Patrick

Satyajeet Pal

Katheryn

Jeffrey Mack

Dan Yoder

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge our view of the way the world really works.

Superfreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

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