SuperFreakonomics

• The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world.

• In SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner promise to once again challenge our view of the way the world really works.

• It is filled with entertaining stories that engage the reader and provide interesting insights on a wide range of topics.

• The authors examine new technologies that some ingenious out-of-the-box thinkers are pursuing and that investors may wish to keep an eye on.

SuperFreakonomics raises questions such as:

1. How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?

2. Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?

3. How good do car seats do?

4. What's the best way to catch a terrorist?

5. Did TV cause a rise in crime?

6. What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?

7. Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?

8. Can eating kangaroo save the planet?

9. Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Putting the freak in economics

2. How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?

3. Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance?

4. Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism

5. The fix is in

6. and it's cheap and simple

7. What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common?

8. Epilogue: Monkeys are people too