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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
2009, 288 pages
Nonfiction
The authors who brought us the popular “Freakonomics” are back with another entertaining yet thoughtful book about microeconomics. While the questions they ask seem humorous on the surface, there is always a lesson in what they find. Who would have thought that bringing TV to rural India would change the lives of so many women? Or that the answer to global warming is to have another major volcanic eruption? While you may not agree with their conclusions, and you just might think they are a little off the wall, you are guaranteed to enjoy reading their new book, and you may just learn something.
