Dubner Stephen J. - SuperFreakonomics
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Sub-Par Thinking
When to Rob a Bank
Think Like a Freak
"SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated Edition"
SuperFreakonomics
"Freakonomics, Revised Edition"
SDL:
To Jeannette, my soul mate
SJD:
To Ellen, for showing me
how interesting the world can be
CONTENTS
Because sometimes words are not enough.
In which we admit to lying in our previous book.
PUTTING THE FREAK IN ECONOMICS
In which the global financial meltdown is entirely ignored in favor of more engaging topics.
The perils of walking drunk... The unlikely savior of Indian women... Drowning in horse manure... What is freakonomics, anyway?... Toothless sharks and bloodthirsty elephants... Things you always thought you knew but didnt.
HOW IS A STREET PROSTITUTE LIKE A DEPARTMENT-STORE SANTA?
In which we explore the various cost of being woman.
Meet LaSheena, a part-time prostitute... One million dead witches... The many ways in which females are punished for being born female... Even Radcliffe women pay the price... Title IX creates jobs for women; men take them... 1 of every 50 women a prostitute... The booming sex trade in old-time Chicago... A survey like no other... The erosion of prostitute pay... Why did oral sex get so cheap?... Pimps versus Realtors... Why cops love prostitutes... Where did all the schoolteachers go?... What really accounts for the male-female wage gap?... Do men love money the way women love kids?... Can a sex change boost your salary?... Meet Allie, the happy prostitute; why arent there more women like her?
WHY SHOULD SUICIDE BOMBERS BUY LIFE INSURANCE?
In which we discuss compelling aspects of birth and death, though primarily death.
The worst month to have a baby... The natal roulette affects horses too... Why Albert Aab will outshine Albert Zyzmor... The birthdate bulge... Where does talent come from?... Some families produce baseball players; others produce terrorists... Why terrorism is so cheap and easy... The trickle-down effects of September 11... The man who fixes hospitals... Why the newest ERs are already obsolete... How can you tell a good doctor from a bad one?... Bitten by a client at work... Why you want your ER doc to be a woman... A variety of ways to postpone death... Why is chemotherapy so widely used when it so rarely works?... Were still getting our butts kicked by cancer... War: not as dangerous as you think?... How to catch a terrorist.
UNBELIEVABLE STORIES ABOUT APATHY AND ALTRUISM
In which people are revealed to be less good than previously thought, but also less bad.
Why did 38 people watch Kitty Genovese be murdered?... With neighbors like these... What caused the 1960s crime explosion?... How the ACLU encourages crime... Leave It to Beaver: not as innocent as you think... The roots of altruism, pure and impure... Who visits retirement homes?... Natural disasters and slow news days... Economists make like Galileo and hit the lab... The brilliant simplicity of the Dictator game... People are so generous!... Thank goodness for donorcycles... The great Iranian kidney experiment... From driving a truck to the ivory tower... Why dont real people behave like people in the lab?... The dirty rotten truth about altruism... Scarecrows work on people too... Kitty Genovese revisited.
THE FIX IS INAND ITS CHEAP AND SIMPLE
In which big, seemingly intractable problems are solved in surprising ways.
The dangers of childbirth... Ignatz Semmelweis to the rescue... How the Endangered Species Act endangered species... Creative ways to keep from paying for your trash... Forceps hoarding... The famine that wasnt... Three hundred thousand dead whales... The mysteries of polio... What really prevented your heart attack?... The killer car... The strange story of Robert McNamara... Lets drop some skulls down the stairwell!... Hurray for seat belts... Whats wrong with riding shotgun?... How much good do car seats do?... Crash-test dummies tell no lies... Why hurricanes kill, and what can be done about it.
WHAT DO AL GORE AND MOUNT PINATUBO HAVE IN COMMON?
In which we take a cool, hard look at global warming.
Lets melt the ice cap!... Whats worse: car exhaust or cow farts?... If you love the earth, eat more kangaroo... It all comes down to negative externalities... The Club versus LoJack... Mount Pinatubo teaches a lesson... The obscenely smart, somewhat twisted gentlemen of Intellectual Ventures... Assassinating mosquitoes... Sir, I am every kind of scientist!... An inconvenient truthiness... What climate models miss... Is carbon dioxide the wrong villain?... Big-ass volcanoes and climate change... How to cool the earth... The garden hose to the sky... Reasons to hate geoengineering... Jumping the repugnance barrier... Soggy mirrors and the puffy-cloud solution... Why behavior change is so hard... Dirty hands and deadly doctors... Foreskins are falling.
MONKEYS ARE PEOPLE TOO
In which it is revealed thataw, hell, you have to read it to believe it.
WELCOME TO THE ebook edition of SuperFreakonomics: Super-Deluxe, Super-Illustrated Edition. Many of the photographs, sidebars, charts and graphs that are part of the pages of the hardcover edition can be in hyperlinks in this edition. The blue icons are hyperlinks to this additional material; the gray icons indicate that additional material will follow (but is not a hyperlink). In addition, all of the hyperlink material is collected in the appendix. When you open a hyperlink to view the photographs, sidebars, charts and graphs, we recommend that you also double-click on the art for an extended view.
ONE OF US is a numbers guy and the other is a word guy, but we both like pictures too. Thats why we made this illustrated edition of SuperFreakonomics : sometimes numbers and words arent enough.
By pictures, we mean a lot of different thingsphotographs, illustrations, scientific or technical drawings, even panels of data. The idea was simply to add another dimension to the two-dimensional words and numbers wed already put down on paper. To show, for instance, an actual between that same scientist and one of the giants of twentieth-century literature.
We are greatly indebted to all the people who contributed their photographs, recollections, and sterling ideas, from of brilliant inventors at Intellectual Ventures, and to many others.
The main text of the book remains unchanged except for some minor corrections. So if you already own the original edition and want this one as well, you might like to ask someone else to purchase it for you.
This edition was inspired by several readers who wrote to say theyd like to see more of the data behind the stories we tell. That inspiration was amplified by our admiration for Edward Tufte, who has extravagantly expanded the universe for data-centric storytelling. As we got under way, we thought: This is great fun; why isnt every book an illustrated book? Then we found out why: because its a massive amount of work!
Fortunately, we had a corps of amazing comrades to help execute the task. Ryan Hagen was a tireless researcher and writer who also kept track of every logistical detail; you can find a picture of him in the following pages if you look hard enough (hint: he is not a terrorist). And the design firm Number 17 was creative and clever beyond belief. Super-size thanks to Emily Oberman, Bonnie Siegler, Rachel Matts, Naz Sahin, and Jamie Bartolacci. The good ideas and hard work of all these folks, and many more, are evident on every page.
As with childbirth (or so we are told), the pain of creation is quickly forgotten once the fruit of that labor can be held in ones hands. With this edition now complete, were casting about for other unlikely books that could benefit from an illustrated makeover. Your suggestions are welcome. Next years federal budget might be interesting...
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