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Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
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Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people ...
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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- Creator
- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
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- Language
- English
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- First Canadian edition
- Toronto : HarperCollins, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 270 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781554686087, 1554686083
- OCLC
- ocn495844952
- Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Putting the freak in economics -- How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in--and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue: Monkeys are people too