Superfreakonomics (Audio book) - Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. 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? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. 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. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over?but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D Levitt, Steven D. Levitt
• Assisted by: Stephen J. Dubner (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780060889357
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088935-7
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 147 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Audio Books; Harper Collins Audio Books
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Finance / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Terrorism, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Green Business, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Women in Politics