SUPER Freakonomics

Did you know that car seats for children over 3 have pretty much the same rate of death as a regular seat belt?  Did you know that terrorists would be harder to identify by their purchases if they got life insurance?  Did you know that we could solve global warming for a fraction of the taxes that are being suggested under Cap and Trade?  All of these interesting facts and more are in this book.  Economics and economists never seemed so interesting as they do in this book.  This is the follow-up book to the very awesome and incredibly provocative Freakonomics.  This book is no less provocative and every bit as interesting.   These two authors have combined, again, to create something that is accessible, serious, humorous and should be read by world leaders and voters alike.  I laughed and scoffed and in general flipped pages like a mad man and not just because I needed to get the book to the library in a week.  This was an easy read with in-depth descriptions that would satisfy the most technical of readers.  It is full of the type of useless information that makes for great conversation at parties where there is nothing going on and it will excite the crowd in raucous debate for the rest of the evening.  Buy one today and be the instigator at your next get together.

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