作者:
[美国]
史蒂芬·列维特
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Stephen J·Dubner 出版社: William Morrow 副标题: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance 出版年: 2009 页数: 288 ISBN: 9781554686087
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.
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?
Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.
Freakonomics has been imitated many times over – but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.
Well....not as good as expected. Oftentimes the authors just wander off to some unrelated topics without answering directly the questions being asked at the beginning.
0 有用 takigo 2014-03-30 22:22:28
唠嗑啊这是
0 有用 while 2010-06-06 19:37:47
好在豆瓣没有中文版的译名,可以直接选英文书名
0 有用 枸橼之尘 2010-12-12 22:16:20
升级版本的升级版
0 有用 Le 2010-10-29 06:38:51
Well....not as good as expected. Oftentimes the authors just wander off to some unrelated topics without answering directly the questions being asked at the beginning.
0 有用 agnes 2011-04-11 00:02:47
前半部分比较精彩~