Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the recipient of the John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty.
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.
作者的思路其实还是那么简单,将两件看似毫不相干的事放在一起,由于它们有某种程度上的类似,比如说变化趋势,然后经过一些看似符合常理的分析,使这两件事物发生关系,从而得到看似荒谬,听起来却十分有道理的结论。我不得不承认从某种意义上讲,这的确可以锻炼人的思维,以...
评分关于穆斯林斋戒fasting的影响删除了。 互惠朋友翻译得不对, benifits of friend指那些只做爱不谈感情的朋友 p237非居间化,应该是“脱媒”
评分曾经听过一个段子,大意是说爱因斯坦同志在天堂和几个人聊天,大科学家问他们的智商是多少,其中一个人说他的智商是160,爱因斯坦说那你可以和我谈相对论,另一个人说他的智商是80,爱因斯坦则说那你可以和我谈经济学。 从这个段子就可以看出经济学家有多不受待见。在相当长的...
评分想当年,Freaknomics横空出世,两位青年才俊一举成名,仰慕者包括我这样的俗人,很被那些稀奇古怪的研究想法折服,觉得这才是不脱离群众的、学以致用的经济学。。。 当Super Freaknomics再来,点子还是一样的新颖,只是当初的惊喜已然不再,读下来文笔也嫌拖沓,罗里吧嗦地半...
评分作者的思路其实还是那么简单,将两件看似毫不相干的事放在一起,由于它们有某种程度上的类似,比如说变化趋势,然后经过一些看似符合常理的分析,使这两件事物发生关系,从而得到看似荒谬,听起来却十分有道理的结论。我不得不承认从某种意义上讲,这的确可以锻炼人的思维,以...
没有第一集有趣,但是介绍John List有关利他主义研究的一章写得很好。
评分没有第一本出彩
评分没有第一部好,方法论证不全面,但经济学原理依然存在(价格定律);简单是可以解决貌似很难复杂的事情,安全带,手术前要洗手
评分第一本在水下听完的书 :-)
评分还是很娱乐,只不过5年后再看已经太浅了。
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