SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Brossura

Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

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ISBN 10: 0062063375 ISBN 13: 9780062063373

Casa editrice: Harper Collins, New York, 2011

Riassunto

In 2005, FREAKONOMICS exploded like a bomb on the culture, forever changing the way we understand the way the world works, how we really make decisions, and ... how we name our children. After more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, three million copies sold, and single-handedly inventing a genre of books, University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times writer Stephen Dubner now return with SUPERFREAKONOMICS. Based on entirely new research, it's bigger, more provocative, and ready to challenge the way we think all over again.

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Recensione:

Jauntier and more assured than the first. (Time magazine)

Delightful...Messrs. Levitt and Dubner show every sign of being careful researchers, going so far as to send chapter drafts to their interviewees for comment prior to publication.....Part of the genius of Marxism, and a reason for its enduring appeal, is that it fed man's neurotic fear of social catastrophe while providing an avenue for moral transcendence. It's just the same with global warming, which is what makes the clear-eyed analysis in SuperFreakonomics so timely and important. (Now my sincere apologies to the authors for an endorsement that will surely give their critics another cartridge of ammunition.) (Wall Street Journal)

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))

L'autore:

Steven Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a recipient of the John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty.

Stephen J. Dubner, a former writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Confessions of a Hero Worshiper, and the children's book The Boy with Two Belly Buttons. He lives in New York City with his family.

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• Editore: Harper Collins, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062063375
• ISBN 13: 9780062063373
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352