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SuperFreakonomics - Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

SuperFreakonomics - Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

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Authors : Stephen J. Dubner; Steven D. Levitt

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Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?

SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:

How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?

Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?

How much good do car seats do?

What's the best way to catch a terrorist?

Did TV cause a rise in crime?

What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?

Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?

Can eating kangaroo save the planet?

Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?

Book Details
Paperback: 270 pages
Subjects: business, business & management, economics, reference, sociology
ISBN: 9780713999914
Publisher: Penguin
Published: October 2009

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Book reviews: 'SuperFreakonomics - Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance'
TEXT_OF_5_STARS  Very interesting, Friday 11 December, 2009
by Manish
If you loved Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, then you will definitely like this book.

This books investigates human behavior, and what drives people to behave the way they do. Even though the data and the research is American centric, the results are true globally. It even has a couple of case studies that relate to India, one of which may hurt the fragile Indian male ego. The book also talks of some innovative solution for the environment crisis and global warming, and the authors are more hopeful on this subject than what we hear in media.

Having said that, I do not agree with the research that says talks about the positive impact of cable television on the lives of Indian women, and the girl child. I think the findings do not have correct facts behind them.

I would like to hear what others have to say about this book.

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