SuperFreakonomics
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Description
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.
Genres
TheoryEconomicsBusiness & EconomicsSociologySocial ScienceAll Other NonfictionData ScienceComputersPolitical EconomyPolitical ScienceFinanceSocial AspectsTechnology & EngineeringMicroeconomicsSocial & BehavioralSocial TheoryPopular CultureManagementSocial HistoryHistoryArtificial IntelligenceEssaysHistory
Pages320
Released2009
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN9780061959936
SellerHarperCollins
About the author(s)
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.
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career—as an almost rock star—to become a writer. He has since taught English at Columbia, worked for The New York Times, and published three non-Freakonomics books.
