SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Freakonomics • Book 2
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner
Why You'll Love This
Dubner reads his own book like a mischievous professor who just found out the thing everyone believes is wrong — and can't wait to tell you.
- Great if you want: contrarian ideas delivered with wit and zero jargon
- Listening experience: breezy and punchy — chapters feel like long, satisfying magazine features
- Narration: Dubner's co-author status gives the prose an insider warmth
- Skip if: you found Freakonomics glib or its provocations shallow
About This Book
SuperFreakonomics, the sequel to Freakonomics, continues Levitt and Dubner's project of applying economic analysis to questions far outside the normal range of economic inquiry. How dangerous is it to walk drunk versus drive drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so heavily given its mixed success rates? What would a cheap, deployable fix for global warming look like? The book uses the same approach as the first — follow the incentives, look at the data, ignore the conventional wisdom — and arrives at conclusions that are consistently provocative.
Stephen Dubner narrates his own book with the same conversational energy that defines the franchise's brand. His delivery matches the irreverence of the written material — the book is meant to be surprising and slightly delightful, and Dubner's voice carries that quality. At just under seven and a half hours the audiobook is a self-contained argument for the pleasures of counterintuitive thinking.
