Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, (Hardcover)

from joecflee

A collection of bizarre but eye-opening stories. The writers are interesting, but the narrative is a bit all over the place. Compared to Malcolm Gladwell, there doesn't seem to be an overarching purpose... just a collection of fun facts, that when tied together, is interesting, but not much more....

from benuathanasia

The anecdotes, quotes, statistics, and experiments are all absolutely fascinating. Sadly, the conclusions the authors draw from these things are very often completely incorrect and pointed out ad nauseum by those far more intelligent and expert than myself.

from Jenners26

2 words that describe the book-Freaky Economics (Duh!) 3 characters I met * Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive, is one of the co-founders of Intellectual Ventures (IV)-an invention company that has come up with a variety of creative and affordable fixes for a variety of problems, rangi...

from kajoe

Good product,outstanding service,I ordered the book on sunday night,it was shipped monday and received it 0900 on wednesday.Std shipping. Very pleased with product,price and delivery.

from yeremenko

I suspect a lot of the people that give this a low grade are disguising their disgust that the former "cool kids" that took down Real Estate agents and compared drug gangs to the big corporate struggle dared to take on the orthodoxy of global warming and the patron Saint Al Gore. The chapter abou...