Tampa Escorts: Superfreakonomics, the book you can’t take home to mother

October 24, 2009

Their book Freakonomics (The Hidden Side of Everything) sold more than 4 million copies, and now Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist in New York City, and Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, are back with more in SuperFreakonomics, which was published Tuesday. They continue to look for the weird but illuminating comparisons and contrasts and to find hidden threads that have deeper meaning, this time on topics ranging from why prostitutes‘ pricing has fallen in recent decades to why doctors aren’t washing their hands often enough. Of course, there is a controversial chapter on global warming. We publish some excerpts from the book as well as answers from Dubner to questions posed by e-mail from Perspective editor Jim Verhulst. Q&A | With the authors: Why did you take another run at Freakonomics? What was your point in writing a second book? Even before our first book was published, back in 2005, we realized we really enjoyed working toge …

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