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Review: Superfreakonomics

The Book: Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Story: Just like the original Freakonomics, this second book is pretty  much story-less.  They kind of just take these different ideas and combine bits of information that don’t seem like they go together to [...]

Review: Freakonomics

The Book: Freakonomics; A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Story: Yeah, not much of a “story.”  They even say in the introduction that the information presented doesn’t really have particularly clear ties to any of the other information.  Each chapter kind of takes on [...]