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A review by thomas_edmund
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
3.0
After a slightly jokey intro about a lack of unifying theme Superfreakonomics collects a handful of essays on unusual subjects using a perspective of freaky economics.
Chapter one describes the sort of money and issues that surround prostitution, and is a slighly funny chapter, lacks insight worth buying a book for however.
Two, focusses on terrorism and hospital ERs. This chapter is mildly frustrating as when explaining predictors of terrorism, the authors have to keep us in the dark due to issues of national security.
Three, Description of apathy and altruism, blows apart the commonly held ideas of the Kitty Genovese case. Probably the best chapter.
Chatpers Four and Five are vaguely focussed on global warming, and simply solutions to large scale problems. I found this chapter annoying as after claiming the problem with global warming is that people treated the issue to crudely and oversimplified and proceed to not really present a very clear thesis on the subject. The authors seem too busy giving nods to deniers and hassling believers , yet agreeing with believers that it becomes confusing as to what the authors are advocating.
Overall I enjoyed SuperFreakonomics but I wouldn't urge readers to rush out and buy/borrow the book. Just give it a look through when you have some spare time to kill.
Chapter one describes the sort of money and issues that surround prostitution, and is a slighly funny chapter, lacks insight worth buying a book for however.
Two, focusses on terrorism and hospital ERs. This chapter is mildly frustrating as when explaining predictors of terrorism, the authors have to keep us in the dark due to issues of national security.
Three, Description of apathy and altruism, blows apart the commonly held ideas of the Kitty Genovese case. Probably the best chapter.
Chatpers Four and Five are vaguely focussed on global warming, and simply solutions to large scale problems. I found this chapter annoying as after claiming the problem with global warming is that people treated the issue to crudely and oversimplified and proceed to not really present a very clear thesis on the subject. The authors seem too busy giving nods to deniers and hassling believers , yet agreeing with believers that it becomes confusing as to what the authors are advocating.
Overall I enjoyed SuperFreakonomics but I wouldn't urge readers to rush out and buy/borrow the book. Just give it a look through when you have some spare time to kill.