![]() ![]() Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing - and so much fun to read. Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. ![]() Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is: good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.įreakonomics has been imitated many times over - but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match. Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. The inner working of a crack gang….The truth about real-estate agents….The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. ![]() In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of…well, everything. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Thus the new field of study contained in this audiobook: Freakonomics. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life, from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, and whose conclusions turn the conventional wisdom on its head. These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortionaffect the rate of violent crime? Read by one of the authors, these books offer a slew of interesting ideas and points of view you won’t run across anywhere else. Most people have probably heard of Freakonomics, but most people probably haven’t heard Freakonomics. ![]()
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