Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain / Steven D. Levitt & St...
Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain / Steven D. Levitt & St...
Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain / Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.
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Publisher
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
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G 2014/4129
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
What does it mean to think like a freak?: An endless supply of fascinating questions ; The pros and cons of breast-feeding, fracking, and virtual currencies ; There is no magic Freakonomics tool ; Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger ; How to win the World Cup ; Private benefits...
Like a bad dye job, the truth is in the roots: A bucket of cash will not cure poverty and a planeload of food will not cure famine ; How to find the root cause of a problem ; Revisiting the abortion-crime link ; What does Martin Luther have to do with the German economy? ; How the "Scramble for Afri...
What do King Solomon and David Lee Roth have in common?: A pair of nice, Jewish, game-theory-loving boys ; "Fetch me a sword!" ; What the brown M&M's were really about ; Teach your garden to weed itself ; Did medieval "ordeals" of boiling water really work? ; You too can play God once in a while ; W...
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Publisher
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
The New York Times bestselling authors of Freakonomics offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms.
Levitt and Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally-- to think, that is, like a Freak. Whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms, you'll learn to put away your moral compass, think like a child, and discover how incentives rule our wor...
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Full title
Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain / Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.
Portion of title
Retrain your brain.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-254) and index.
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G 2014/4129
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74VKKplaEDpZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKplaEDpZ
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ISBN
0062218336
9780062218339
DDC
153.43
MMS ID
991021754779702626
