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Superfreakonomics

[Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance]
Jan 04, 2016danielestes rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Stevens have done it again. The follow-up to the immensely popular Freakonomics could have easily been a rushed cash-grab, but the authors took their time crafting an entry worthy of the series and it paid off. SuperFreakonomics is another home run. Some readers might say it's more of the same, but that's not giving credit where it's due. Using their own brand of quirky economic reasoning to produce Freakonomics was a brilliant move, and to apply a similar but ever-evolving process to a new set of contentious societal problems isn't "more of the same." It's about growing a process that works. As long as complex problems exist in the world, there will always be a place for the Freakonomics approach to solving them.