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Levitt and Dubner highlighted a really interesting aspect of medical treatment, the fact that prescribing anything, whether...

Super Freakonomics was clearly designed for the populace. While the bloggers below me raise valid points about Levitt's assumptions, tr...

I admit it. I find the Freakonomics book series to be charming, and, damn, if it isn’t entertaining as hell. The economist-meets-journali...

I enjoyed reading Superfreakonomics. Particularly, I found interesting the discussion of “Ian Horsley”’s model for using bank and demograp...

I found SuperFreakonomics to be super interesting and entertaining. I was, however, frustrated at the lack of detail and methodology in the ...

Superfreakonomics- Heating up the global warming debate Superfreakonomics was a very interesting read. Building on th...

In the first chapter of Superfreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner provide a cost-benefit analysis of the choice to be a street...