Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance /
Levitt, Steven D. 1967-
Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance / Super freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2011. - xv, 270 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.
How is a street prostitute like a department-store santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in - and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue : monkeys are people too.
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
9780141048321
Economics--Psychological aspects.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Economía --Aspectos psicológicos
Economía --Aspectos sociológicos.
HB 74 / L666s 2011
330
Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance / Super freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2011. - xv, 270 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.
How is a street prostitute like a department-store santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in - and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue : monkeys are people too.
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
9780141048321
Economics--Psychological aspects.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Economía --Aspectos psicológicos
Economía --Aspectos sociológicos.
HB 74 / L666s 2011
330