TY - BOOK AU - Levitt,Steven D. AU - Dubner,Stephen J. TI - Superfreakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance SN - 9780060889579 AV - HB74.P8 L4797 2009 U1 - 330 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - William Morrow KW - Economics KW - Psychological aspects KW - Sociological aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index; How is a street prostitute like a department-store santa? -- Why should suicide bombers buy life insurance? -- Unbelievable stories about apathy and altruism -- The fix is in - and it's cheap and simple -- What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common? -- Epilogue : monkeys are people too N2 - Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives ER -