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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Statistics can reveal brilliant insights about our world today.
Chapter 3: Think like an economist and you’ll unlock society’s hidden secrets today.
Chapter 4: Prostitution statistics reveal several economic principles at play today.
Chapter 5: Economic thinking can help us catch terrorists before they strike.
Chapter 6: In truth, people are neither wholly altruistic nor completely apathetic.
Chapter 7: Often, the trickiest problems end up having the simplest solutions indeed.
Chapter 8: Confusion surrounding global warming makes it difficult to tackle effectively.
Chapter 9: Statistics suggest we can combat global warming with more pollution, not less, actually.
Description
SuperFreakonomics (2009) explains why thinking like an economist can help us understand our modern world. These blinks illustrate key economic principles and the importance of collecting data with colorful stories from human history, and offers surprising solutions for the global problems that we face today.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in entertaining, statistical facts about human behavior
- Math buffs who believe in the power of statistics
- Anyone curious about a very cheap way to stop global warming