Review: Super Freakonomics
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I recently completed Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner. This is the follow-up to their best-selling Freakonomics. Super Freakonomics is a little out of the normal productivity and business genera that I normally review on this site but it was a funny and interesting book.
The authors, Levitt and Dubner, take a different slant on microeconomic analysis by looking at analyzing such topics as:
- Why do prostitutes earn less on an inflation adjusted basis now than at the turn of the century and are prostitutes better off with pimps or on their own?
- Is television ruining a society by causing crime or improving the lives of women in rural Indian society?
- Which is more dangerous: drinking and driving or walking home drunks? (…at least for the drunk)
- Do car seats really save lives?
- Can more pollution actual eliminate global warming?
- Is it possible to cause moral decline in monkeys by introducing money?
While most would find a book about microeconomics boring and tedious but the authors’ humor and interesting topic choices did a great job keeping me engages and wanting to keep reading more. While there were points I would gladly argue with their conclusions I was never bored and enjoyed reading this book.
I would defiantly recommend this book.
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