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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. 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. Klappentext The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, 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. Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary? 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? Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? How much good do car seats do? What's the best way to catch a terrorist? Did TV cause a rise in crime? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. 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. ...
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"Jauntier and more assured than the first." - Time magazine
"As one of the most successful writing partnerships in publishing, they make an entirely complementary and logical team in the same way that Jack Spratt and his wife did at the dinner table. Mr. Levitt provides the economist's methodology and number-crunching skills and Mr. Dubner writes it all up so as to make it interesting -- and comprehensible -- to the layman." - Daily Telegraph (London)
"The clever authors of the popular Freakonomics return for the inevitable and equally readable sequel, this time identifying a unifying theme: People respond to incentives. " - USA Today
"Genuinely fascinating." - The Guardian
"Jaunty, entertaining and smart. Levitt and Dubner do a good service by making economics accessible, even compelling." - Kirkus Reviews
"The intriguing, equally funny sequel to the mega-selling Freakonomics." - Sacramento Bee
"This terrific follow-up to the bestseller Freakonomics has a surprising amount in common with its Rick James-inspired title: Both include prostitution; both cover topics you wouldn't normally expect most people to enjoy, but they can't seem to resist here; both are bouncy and lyrical enough to keep you entertained for hours; and both will stay with you for years longer than you would have initially suspected." - The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
"Entertaining, well-written, and full of surprises and insights....I really liked Freakonomicsand I think SuperFreakonomics is even better...I recommend this book to anyone who reads nonfiction. It is very well written and full of great insights." - Bill Gates
"Thank goodness they are back . . . with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight." - Los Angeles Times
"The idea of SuperFreakonomics...is to do more of what was done before. The book does it nicely." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Like Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics ingeniously and imaginatively renders data so that we are startled to see the unlikely and unforeseeable in what on second glance seems so obvious." - The Calgary Herald (Alberta)
"Intoxicatingly readable." - Washington Post
"An inventive and even useful application of economics to unusual subjects....The strength of this book, as of the original, is in how it applies the time-tested tools of economics in unusual places to turn up surprising conclusions." - BusinessWeek
"Levitt and Dubner passionately argue that 'cheap and simple solutions' could be just around the corner - if only we could be a little more rational." - Time Out London
"Provocative." - BusinessWeek
"Fascinating...An afternoon with Levitt and Dubner's book will transform you into the most interesting person in the room that evening.... its seeds of thought and pulpy ruminations are...sure to stimulate and delight" - National Public Radio
"Takes us on another rollercoaster ride across the terrain of the improbable....Spectacularly interesting, attesting, once again, to the authors' uncanny ability to sift contemporary economic research and cherrypick the really juicy stuff....SuperFreakonomics is a humdinger of a book: page-turning, politically incorrect and ever-so-slightly intoxicating, like a large swig of tequila....It's all a bit freaky, of course - but in a thoroughly enlightening way." - The Times (London)
