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mimidang1028 's review for:
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
04/13/10: 9.05pm
Most fascinating chapters are chapter about the geoengineering (injecting seemingly dangerous chemicals into the stratstrophere to cool down global temperature) and the one about monkey prostitution taht stems from their rationality and irrationality that are strikingly similar to humans' considering the prevalence of the conventional wisdom that monkeys are no way near the threshold of intelligence.
First chapter about prostitutes and how being born a woman is like isn't at all intriguing. Authors covered already heavily-covered topics and added nothing new to the knowledge.
Second about births ann deaths said something about delaying deaths because of some foreseeable-temtping future (religious holidays, abandonment of inheritance tax...) They repeated the astrology's effects on births and later success in life that Gladwell talked about in Outliers [b:Outliers|3228917|Outliers|Malcolm Gladwell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255608670s/3228917.jpg|3364437]... esp hockey..
Third one about altruism and the 38 Witness of the Kitty incident at Kews Garden in 1964 wasn't any mmore eye opening. JOhn List rejected laboratory findings of economists through Dictator games by introducing new elements. This is simply a battle field between "For homo economicus" and "homo altruisticus".
Fourth one is simple another rubbish. Just like a summary of achievements of humans. One notable thing is the car seat issue and how it isn't at all better than seat belts.
Most fascinating chapters are chapter about the geoengineering (injecting seemingly dangerous chemicals into the stratstrophere to cool down global temperature) and the one about monkey prostitution taht stems from their rationality and irrationality that are strikingly similar to humans' considering the prevalence of the conventional wisdom that monkeys are no way near the threshold of intelligence.
First chapter about prostitutes and how being born a woman is like isn't at all intriguing. Authors covered already heavily-covered topics and added nothing new to the knowledge.
Second about births ann deaths said something about delaying deaths because of some foreseeable-temtping future (religious holidays, abandonment of inheritance tax...) They repeated the astrology's effects on births and later success in life that Gladwell talked about in Outliers [b:Outliers|3228917|Outliers|Malcolm Gladwell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255608670s/3228917.jpg|3364437]... esp hockey..
Third one about altruism and the 38 Witness of the Kitty incident at Kews Garden in 1964 wasn't any mmore eye opening. JOhn List rejected laboratory findings of economists through Dictator games by introducing new elements. This is simply a battle field between "For homo economicus" and "homo altruisticus".
Fourth one is simple another rubbish. Just like a summary of achievements of humans. One notable thing is the car seat issue and how it isn't at all better than seat belts.