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Super freakonomics [LP] global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance

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.

Main Author: Levitt, Steven D.
Other Authors: Dubner, Stephen J.
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York, N. Y. : Harperluxe, 2009.
Subjects:
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Large print books.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: xx, 388 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780061927577 :
0061927570
Author Notes: Steven D. Levitt received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1989 and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1994. He is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago where he has been teaching since 1997. He was awarded the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, an award that recognizes the most outstanding economist in America under the age of 40. He is the coauthor, with Stephen J. Dubner, of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. It won the inaugural Quill Award for best business book and a Visionary Award from the National Council on Economic Education. He also wrote SuperFreakonomics, Think Like a Freak and When to Rob a Bank:...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants with Stephen J. Dubner.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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