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

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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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.




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Summary: Not A FaN!
Comment: I was expecting more than this...why second book usually dull than the first?? I miss "my jaw opening moment" in freakonomics. I guess as the writer said, the first book is a freedom...with low expectation and liberated mind. The second book I guess the incentives rules!!.........oh well..

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Summary: More Amusing Anecdotes
Comment: After the movie "Jaws" was a great hit in 1975 an academic book was published. One of its chapters analyzed the reported shark attacks and concluded they were far higher ("Man Injured While Swimming"). So those figures in this book aren't reliable (p.15). Any event can be misinterpreted to create a shocking story to sell newspapers, magazines, or books. Another flaw is their linkage of TV to the effects on Indian village life. No mention of an improved economy leading to more TVs, a lower birthrate, and more education for children (p.7). The anecdote about walking drunk is based on an assumption (p.3). People walk short distances and drive long distances. Walking along a highway at night is dangerous drunk or sober.

Chapter 1 is a sleazy story about prostitution that depends on an anecdote. The end of the chapter seems like a joke about economists. Are there flaws in his stories? Chapter 2 begins by explaining why pregnant women should be well-fed. June marriages in the northern hemisphere are best as they match harvest time (p.58). A name or birthday can affect you (pp.59-60). The authors suggest the 9/11 terrorist attack contributed to the current depression (p.66). This is nonsense, the "financial meltdown" was due to massive fraud via overpriced securities, and this was not an accident. What makes the best doctor (pp.80-81)? What reduces the mortality rate (p.51)? What can you do to live longer? Buy an annuity (p.82)! [Do only those in good health buy an annuity?] The death rate by accidents for soldiers is greater than hostile fire (p.87). That's because all soldiers are at risk for accidents but only a small minority are in a shooting war.

In discussing the murder of Kitty Genovese the author overlooked what would have happened if she owned a pistol and fired shots to defend herself (p.98). Gun control kills. Did 38 people really stand by and watch a murder? No. Did the crime rate rise in the mid 1950s (p.100)? Wasn't that when they took policemen off their beats and put them in cars so they lost touch with people? The authors are wrong again in their discussion of when an area got TV. Areas with a dense population got TV first, and this is one indicator of a higher crime rate (p.104). They may be wrong about an elderly person in a retirement home (p.105). Do the children live nearby? Academic games (p.110)? Is there any moral hazard in buying body parts (p.112)? Do laboratory experiments work in the real world (p.115)? Page 116 suggests they do not. The story about "38 witnesses" was another hoax from the `NY Times' (p.129)! Somebody did call (pp.130-131).

Chapter 4 explains the solution to childbirth fever (p.137). A tax on bags of garbage? No (p.139)! Do the authors have any facts to criticize debt forgiveness (p.140)? No, and they don't know that. Deaths from heart disease were reduced by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure (p.146). Robert S. McNamara pioneered car safety (p.148). [A competitive strategy.] Are car seats safer than seat belts (p.153)? About the same (p.155). Doesn't the change in the sun's relative position to earth cause cooling or warming (Chapter 5)? Predicting climate change is "extraordinarily complex" (p.168). Does "research funding" create the desired results (p.182)? An increase in carbon dioxide causes more plant growth (p.185). Is the "global warming" project a form of imperialism against Third World countries (p.199)? If billions of dollars can be gained from a carbon-credits tax there is little hope for a low-cost antidote (p.198).

The `Notes' section is worth reading as a complement. There are people who will believe everything in this book (as in newspapers and magazines). They should be more cautious.


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Summary: Could not put this book down!!!!
Comment: First timer here! Haven't ever taken the time to write a review before but I have to recommend this book. Witty, funny and oh, so thought provoking!
LOVED IT!

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Summary: Entertaining
Comment: My review title says it all. I really don't think this kind of book is meant to be anything other than intellectual entertainment, but there's nothing wrong with that. It reminds me a lot of Malcolm Gladwell - making unexpected associations to end up with interesting conclusions about our lives here on Earth. It certainly doesn't deserve to be bashed. Enjoy it and let it stimulate a good discussion.

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Summary: These Guys Are Genisuses!
Comment: "These guys are not just economists. They have a GENIUS for analyzing data differently so as to better explain our daily lives. Their comparisons of Santas versus prostitutes, pimps versus realtors, Al Gore versus a volcano are just some of the apparent contradictions they resolve. You have to read this book."


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