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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the "freakquel" is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department store Santa? Who adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Did TV cause a rise in crime? Can eating kangaroo meat save the planet?

Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner show the world for what it really is—good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, superfreaky.

Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner s new book SuperFreakonomics is a follow-up to their super smash 2005 bestseller, Freakonomics. Thank goodness they are back -- with wisdom, wit and, most of all, powerful economic insight....The Steves wryly, humorously and almost sadistically remind us that we are slaves to our own failures to parse situations into basic economic components.....Human ingenuity is clearly in no short supply in SuperFreakonomics, and we can thank Steve and Steve for making Le Freak still chic. --Los Angeles Times

Jauntier and more assured than the first. --Time Magazine

Entertaining, well-written, and full of surprises and insights....I really liked Freakonomicsand I think SuperFreakonomics is even better...I recommend this book to anyone who reads nonfiction. It is very well written and full of great insights. --Bill Gates