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:(美国)斯蒂夫•列维特 (美国)斯蒂芬•都伯纳 译者:曾贤明
史蒂芬•列维特,芝加哥大学经济学教授,荣获约翰•贝茨•克拉克奖——这是一个只颁发给40岁以下影响力最大的经济学家的奖项。列维特在2006年被《时代》杂志评选为“全球最具影响力的一百人之一”。
史蒂芬•都伯纳,《纽约时报杂志》前撰稿人、编辑。著有《骚动的灵魂》,《一个英雄崇拜者的自白》,另著有儿童图书《长两个肚脐眼的男孩》。
书不错,就是里面的专家导读太倒胃口,完全没有用,出版社用来凑字的吧。。。 这都是什么专家写的啊,疑惑
评分好喜欢《魔鬼经济学》,一直期待作者出续集。直到前几个月在静雅思听到这本书的音频,才知道作者出了新书,2010年4月版,奇怪这书怎么没什么宣传?看完才知道,书实在有些恶,专家推荐,专家导读,读者热评,过度营销了。上豆瓣,没多少人读过,竟然还有N多书托,哎,一塌糊涂...
评分人类是一个自负的物种,他们中的医生不爱在进行手术前洗手(注意,这是在巴斯德业已发现病菌是感染的元凶之后)、他们认为安全带使用起来十分麻烦(而且这还是在无礼地质疑司机的技术)、他们还觉得自己一定能够打败庄家或者市场(实际上真的能做到的人用半只手都数的...
评分书不错,就是里面的专家导读太倒胃口,完全没有用,出版社用来凑字的吧。。。 这都是什么专家写的啊,疑惑
不全对 但是有点儿道理的东西 拉皮条的和real-estate agent简直是绝配
评分没有第一本有意思有深度。但是样本比较多样性。最喜欢讲性工作者那一章。
评分一本best seller的标准:内行能看出门道,外行能看看热闹,深入的同时不要忘了潜出,写一些和每个人都有关的事情,最后一条是尽量不要有任何的公式图表。
评分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.
评分Fun reading on the way, starting from the market share of sexual act in the first chapter regarding prostitutes.
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