SuperFreakonomicsGlobal Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
- Narrated by
Stephen J. Dubner
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- Edition:
- Unabridged (HarperAudio)
- Length:
- 7 hours, 28 minutes
- File Size:
- 205 MB (6 files)
- Published:
- October 2009
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Summary
More unlikely numbers from the rogue economics super-sleuths
As of this writing, SuperFreakonomics is spinning in the eye of a Category 2 controversy. Maybe Cat 3. A follow-up to 2005's immensely popular Freakonomics, this new collection of everyday mysteries explored by “rogue economist" Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner has drawn fire for its fun and imaginative passages on climate change. The Steves, as you might expect, take a by-the-numbers, economics-minded approach, and their "it'll-be-fine" findings certainly butt heads with the doomsday prophesies of Al Gore and other esteemed minds in the field. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who knows. Are child-seats really less safe than seatbelts for kids two and up? Is it really more dangerous to walk drunk than drive drunk? Dubner and Levitt make strong, smart cases for all their bold assertions; your call whether you wanna act on them. Other topics include polluting cows, environmentally unfriendly trees, seasonal prostitutes, cheapskate suicide bombers and the ecological upside of kangaroo farts.
As of this writing, SuperFreakonomics is spinning in the eye of a Category 2 controversy. Maybe Cat 3. A follow-up to 2005's immensely popular Freakonomics, this new collection of everyday mysteries explored by “rogue economist" Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner has drawn fire for its fun and imaginative passages on climate change. The Steves, as you might expect, take a by-the-numbers, economics-minded approach, and their "it'll-be-fine" findings certainly butt heads with the doomsday prophesies of Al Gore and other esteemed minds in the field. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who knows. Are child-seats really less safe than seatbelts for kids two and up? Is it really more dangerous to walk drunk than drive drunk? Dubner and Levitt make strong, smart cases for all their bold assertions; your call whether you wanna act on them. Other topics include polluting cows, environmentally unfriendly trees, seasonal prostitutes, cheapskate suicide bombers and the ecological upside of kangaroo farts.
Quotes from the Critics
"In SUPERFREAKONOMICS, the follow-up to their 4-million-selling Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have fired yet another provocative salvo at conventional wisdom....The results are, expectedly, fascinating....SUPERFREAKONOMICS' 220 pages are breezy and casual, its musings perfect for cocktail-party fodder. An afternoon with Levitt and Dubner's book will transform you into the most interesting person in the room that evening." - National Public Radio
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