SuperFreakonomics

Nowhere near as enlightening as Freakonomics, this time the two Steves, among other things looked at the economics of prostitution; the cheap and accessible solutions to climate change and it's evident real causes; how to easily identify potential suicide bombers; and how washing hands revolutionise......more

Incredible, fast, entertaining read. Thinkers like this one occasionall remind me just why I have chosen my profession. Short Synopsis says it all! (Q): Putting the Freak in Economics In which the global financial meltdown is entirely ignored in favor of more engaging topics. The perils of walking drunk......more

Reading this book was an enormous pleasure. It was like sitting down with a superb raconteur, and hearing story after story of amazing and extraordinary events. "Oh no" you exclaim, "surely that one can't be true!" But yes, it is! And so you leap on hungrily to the next peculiar story. This is a trea......more

Microeconomics. Ever since I read the first Freakonomics book years ago, I became a super freak and LOVED the real-world expose on things we always seem to take for granted. Incentives work. Period. They work more to control our behavior than anything else. Prostitution was huge, years ago, because i......more

the first few chapters were just a continuation of the first book in terms of ideas, tone and excecution; thus, i was feeling pretty satisfied that i was reading such a book and becoming more of a "cold-blooded economist", than a "warm-blooded humanist" (or whatever condescending, self-congratulato......more