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Loading... SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide… (2009)by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Not as good as Freakonomics, they lost me in a few of the chapters. I may have to read it again to fully "get it." (  ) ctsquirrel | Apr 3, 2013 |  I like that this shows up in the search list above "The Use and Abuse of Logic," because, yeah. Like its predecessor, this is a lovely popcorn read but not very convincing. Lots of broad sweeping conclusions, not-very-detailed discussions of data, and an increasingly disturbing pattern of racist and classist assumptions. I'm not unhappy to have read it, but I can't bring myself to defend it. ( ) JeremyPreacher | Mar 29, 2013 | Another fascinating book by these two authors, Superfreakonomics looks at everything from bystander apathy to the difference having a pimp makes for a Chicago prostitute. The writing style is wry and entertaining, and the topics covered are explored through real-world data and have real-world repercussions. I definitely hope these authors write more books in this vein. (  ) seasonsoflove | Jan 18, 2013 | A fascinating follow-up to Freakonomics! Days later, I am still thinking about it. I recommend these books for anyone interested in learning more about how the world works. (  ) les121 | Oct 14, 2012 | The first book was okish. This one however is not. I bet you could do chit chat based on this book at the republican convention. It has everything they love including denial of global warming and patriotic prostitutes. (  ) dinu | Jun 27, 2012 |
 Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner's new book "Super Freakonomics" is a follow-up to their super smash 2005 bestseller, "Freakonomics." Thank goodness they are back -- with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight.  If ever two writers were likely to suffer from "difficult second book" syndrome, it's Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of the smash-hit Freakonomics, which made them the rock stars of the economics world.  The economist and the journalist again attack the concept of the rational man, via studies involving monkeys, banking records, and doctors. Yet there’s an artfulness missing this time around in their circuitous paths toward obvious conclusions like “technology isn’t always better” and “men and women are different.” The difficulty with the book is that while the focus may be fairly fuzzy to begin with, it gets a lot fuzzier as it goes on. There’s a long passage about how people behave differently when they’re being scrutinised – thus making a nonsense of most behavioural experiments – and an even longer one about global warming.
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