zhelana 's review for:

Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

4.0

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This book is a little dated (discussing global warming as if it were still paused, for example) but most of the discussion is pretty timeless. Discussions about how rarely doctors in hospitals washed their hands were shocking, especially given how long we've known how important this is. The information about prostitutes having day jobs and only being prostitutes during high demand times was interesting as I had generally thought that most prostitution was under a pimp. Overall I really enjoyed this book. Also, the epilogue was hilarious talking about prostitute monkeys, a story I had heard before but not in detail.