Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
by
Levitt, Steven D.
Title
:
Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
Author
:
Levitt, Steven D.
ISBN
:
9780713999914
9780713999907
Personal Author
:
Levitt, Steven D.
Publication Information
:
London : Allen Lane, 2009.
Physical Description
:
xv, 270 pages ; 23 cm
General Note
:
Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 2009.
Contents
:
Introduction: Putting the freak in economics -- How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in--and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue: Monkeys are people too.
Abstract
:
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
Subject Term
:
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
Economics -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902172
Economics -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902213
Wirtschaftswissenschaft.
Wirtschaftspsychologie.
Wirtschaftsphilosophie.
Sozialökonomik.
USA.
Wirtschaftstheorie.
Wirtschaftswissenschaften.
Ekonomi.
Economics.
Added Author
:
Dubner, Stephen J.
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