Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. They should have stopped with their first book. A good audio book that is well read but no where as good as its predecessor. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point. A lot about a company in Silicon Valley writing patents on environmental fixes. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner.
Wählen Sie die Kategorie aus, in der Sie suchen möchten. The first is the in depth coverage of hookers which I found educational and entertaining.
Joe Ochman. Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book.
Just don't expect it to be super, and think of it just as you would any other sequel to a great movie.
Unlimited listening on select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
The section about prostitution was interesting, but not extremely surprising. Thomas Sowell, Narrated by: Richard Thaler. By: I really enjoyed the section about global warming, climate change, or whatever the alarmists are calling it now.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster.
Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? You need a United States address to shop on our United States store. SuperFreakonomics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) & 0 more 4.4 out of 5 stars 970 ratings On the bright side, it was entertaining and held my interest, just not the breakthrough that the first book was.
Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Ste By:
Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. He has the same approach to climate change and Levitt and Dubner seem to take it at face value without researching the pros and cons. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over - but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.
Ken Jennings. Using the same pioneering trains of thought that made Freakonomics such a page-turner, this book contains many more intriguing explanations for the everyday. By: Walk in other's shoes for a chapter or two, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020. Hören Sie Ihre Hörbücher bequem über Ihren Kindle Fire, über die Audible-App für Smartphone und Tablet oder am Computer. He used statics to show once abortion was legalized in the 20 years since the crime rate fell dramatically in those areas, which can be attributed to less unwanted children who might have been neglected and brought up in not the best households.
Wählen Sie die Kategorie aus, in der Sie suchen möchten. The first is the in depth coverage of hookers which I found educational and entertaining.
Joe Ochman. Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book.
Just don't expect it to be super, and think of it just as you would any other sequel to a great movie.
Unlimited listening on select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
The section about prostitution was interesting, but not extremely surprising. Thomas Sowell, Narrated by: Richard Thaler. By: I really enjoyed the section about global warming, climate change, or whatever the alarmists are calling it now.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster.
Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? You need a United States address to shop on our United States store. SuperFreakonomics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) & 0 more 4.4 out of 5 stars 970 ratings On the bright side, it was entertaining and held my interest, just not the breakthrough that the first book was.
Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Ste By:
Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. He has the same approach to climate change and Levitt and Dubner seem to take it at face value without researching the pros and cons. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over - but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.
Ken Jennings. Using the same pioneering trains of thought that made Freakonomics such a page-turner, this book contains many more intriguing explanations for the everyday. By: Walk in other's shoes for a chapter or two, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020. Hören Sie Ihre Hörbücher bequem über Ihren Kindle Fire, über die Audible-App für Smartphone und Tablet oder am Computer. He used statics to show once abortion was legalized in the 20 years since the crime rate fell dramatically in those areas, which can be attributed to less unwanted children who might have been neglected and brought up in not the best households.
Wählen Sie die Kategorie aus, in der Sie suchen möchten. The first is the in depth coverage of hookers which I found educational and entertaining.
Joe Ochman. Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book.
Just don't expect it to be super, and think of it just as you would any other sequel to a great movie.
Unlimited listening on select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
The section about prostitution was interesting, but not extremely surprising. Thomas Sowell, Narrated by: Richard Thaler. By: I really enjoyed the section about global warming, climate change, or whatever the alarmists are calling it now.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster.
Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? You need a United States address to shop on our United States store. SuperFreakonomics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) & 0 more 4.4 out of 5 stars 970 ratings On the bright side, it was entertaining and held my interest, just not the breakthrough that the first book was.
Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Ste By:
Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. He has the same approach to climate change and Levitt and Dubner seem to take it at face value without researching the pros and cons. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over - but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.
Ken Jennings. Using the same pioneering trains of thought that made Freakonomics such a page-turner, this book contains many more intriguing explanations for the everyday. By: Walk in other's shoes for a chapter or two, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020. Hören Sie Ihre Hörbücher bequem über Ihren Kindle Fire, über die Audible-App für Smartphone und Tablet oder am Computer. He used statics to show once abortion was legalized in the 20 years since the crime rate fell dramatically in those areas, which can be attributed to less unwanted children who might have been neglected and brought up in not the best households.
It was ok but not at good as the first. When I studied micro in college it had to be painful or it did not count. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant.
Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. They should have stopped with their first book. A good audio book that is well read but no where as good as its predecessor. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point. A lot about a company in Silicon Valley writing patents on environmental fixes. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner.
Wählen Sie die Kategorie aus, in der Sie suchen möchten. The first is the in depth coverage of hookers which I found educational and entertaining.
Joe Ochman. Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book.
Just don't expect it to be super, and think of it just as you would any other sequel to a great movie.
Unlimited listening on select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
The section about prostitution was interesting, but not extremely surprising. Thomas Sowell, Narrated by: Richard Thaler. By: I really enjoyed the section about global warming, climate change, or whatever the alarmists are calling it now.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster.
Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? You need a United States address to shop on our United States store. SuperFreakonomics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) & 0 more 4.4 out of 5 stars 970 ratings On the bright side, it was entertaining and held my interest, just not the breakthrough that the first book was.
Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Ste By:
Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. He has the same approach to climate change and Levitt and Dubner seem to take it at face value without researching the pros and cons. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over - but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.
Ken Jennings. Using the same pioneering trains of thought that made Freakonomics such a page-turner, this book contains many more intriguing explanations for the everyday. By: Walk in other's shoes for a chapter or two, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020. Hören Sie Ihre Hörbücher bequem über Ihren Kindle Fire, über die Audible-App für Smartphone und Tablet oder am Computer. He used statics to show once abortion was legalized in the 20 years since the crime rate fell dramatically in those areas, which can be attributed to less unwanted children who might have been neglected and brought up in not the best households.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. By:
