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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
2) Freakonomics
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the role economics plays in various social issues, including child naming and low crime rates.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better future. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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? ; What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? ; Can...
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