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Cargando... Superfreakonomics (2009)por Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. right wing propaganda on methane pollution and global warming. I might not be too disgusted to persist through the last chapter in case they say: kidding! ( ) When a library patron told me he liked this volume even better than the first one, I was intrigued. I read it on the bus, and indeed, it was fascinating way to pass time. But since I'm no longer taking the bus, and therefore no longer need to pass time, I don't feel like I need to spend the time to finish this book. I'm having trouble seeing the relevancy to the big picture. It's kind of like the short stories of non-fiction, except that I like short stories. The phrase thinking outside the box gets used a lot these days. But these two guys really take this phrase to the extreme. They see things in such a different, fascinating, and often humorous way that it's an absolute pleasure to read their stuff. In fact, the most disappointing thing about this book is thats it's way too short. Only 216 pages. C'mon guys your fans waited years for this follow up, and this is all you could come up with ?
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. Pertenece a las seriesFreakonomics (2) Contenido enFreakonomics Set - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Signed Edition - Easton Press); Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance; Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain por Steven D. Levitt Es una secuela (fuera de la serie) deTiene un comentario del texto enDistinciones
La continuación del fenómeno Freakonomics, con más de 4 millones de copias vendidas nbsp; La economía trata sobre la inflación, los tipos de interés y la bolsa. Superfreakonomics habla de prostitutas, traficantes de droga y luchadores de sumo fracasados. Han sido cuatro años buscando no solo las preguntas más difíciles, sino las más sorprendentes: ¿Es más peligroso conducir borracho o caminar borracho? ¿Por qué se receta la quimioterapia tan a menudo si es tan poco eficaz? ¿Puede un cambio de sexo elevar tu salario? Superfreakonomics desafía nuestra manera de pensar, y explora el lado oculto de las cosas con preguntas como: ¿En qué se parece una prostituta al Papá Noel de unos grandes almacenes? ¿Por qué los médicos se lavan tan poco las manos? ¿Provocó la televisión un incremento del crimen? ¿Cuán útiles son los cinturones de seguridad? ¿Podemos salvar el planeta comiendo canguro? Levitt y Dubner combinan una gran inteligencia con la capacidad para contar historias mejor que nadie, ya sea a la hora de buscar una solución al calentamiento global o explicar por qué el precio del sexo oral ha caído de manera tan radical. Al analizar cómo la gente responde a los incentivos, muestran el mundo tal cual es: bueno, malo, feo, y finalmente, superfreaky. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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