SuperFreakonomics

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The previous book i.e. Freakonomics by the same authors gave a whole new insight into the world of micro economics,but this one surely got to be the real winner.I liked the chapters "The fix is in-and it's cheap and simple" and "What do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo have in common?" the most interesting chapters in the entire book. The way they have described the invention of seatbelts in te cars, the hand-washing procedures(or rather lack of them) of the doctors in the best hospital in Germany are simply awesome. When we look at the solutions that were so simple yet peope were adamant to accept them shows the behavourial charecteristic of humans that they resist change even if it is for their own benefit.
I wouldn't spoil the fun of reading the chapter on global Warming by spilling the secret here which also gives us an insight into what all this brouhaha is all about and how easily the problem might be solved if the folks working at Intellectual Ventures,a high tech company of brilliant minds who have decided to solve the problems of the world,are proved correct and their solution accepted by the global fraternity reseaching on global warming.

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