by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · Allen Lane · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713999914
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«Superfreakonomics» is the economics essay by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, published by Allen Lane in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner apply economic logic to everyday and controversial situations: the risks of walking drunk, the economics of prostitution, or the supposed cheap solutions to global warming. The book shows how incentives shape decisions in areas such as terrorism, healthcare, or charity.
Second title in the Freakonomics series, originally published in 2009. It continues the approach of the first book with new cases, questions, and analyses of incentives and human behaviour.
Recommended for readers interested in popular economics and in essays that approach reality with data, humour, and unconventional perspectives.
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Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
