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A review by spamrisk
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5.0
If every book on thick academic subjects were this interesting and revelatory, well, then I'd probably be reading more books on academic subject. SuperFreakonomics takes the formula established by Freakonomics Jr. of flipping the obvious on its head and rolling with it.
If you're the kind of person who doesn't like having their opinions challenged, you should probably avoid this book. You may not agree with everything at first, but, when you're done, you'll probably be dismissive of children's car seats (but still use them to fit social norms, despite their ineffectiveness).
This is the closest economics will ever come to being sexy. Smart, hip, and full of ideas you just might not have heard before, SuperFreakonomics enlightens and confronts akin to Freakonomics Jr. In a way, it is more of the same, but the same just happens to be an idiosyncratic approach to conquering pervasive problems with novel means.
If you're the kind of person who doesn't like having their opinions challenged, you should probably avoid this book. You may not agree with everything at first, but, when you're done, you'll probably be dismissive of children's car seats (but still use them to fit social norms, despite their ineffectiveness).
This is the closest economics will ever come to being sexy. Smart, hip, and full of ideas you just might not have heard before, SuperFreakonomics enlightens and confronts akin to Freakonomics Jr. In a way, it is more of the same, but the same just happens to be an idiosyncratic approach to conquering pervasive problems with novel means.