New York Times Bestselling Authors
The most highly anticipated publication of the year: New York Times bestselling authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, return with more iconoclastic insight and observations in this long awaited follow-up to Freakonomics
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- William Morrow
- Carton Qty: 10
- Selling Territory: USCOM
- 750,000
- LC: 2009035852
- Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic, Audio: William Morris Agency
- One Day Laydown
- On Sale: 10/20/2009
- Business
- Tr 9780060889579 $29.99 ($38.99)
- 288 pages; 6 x 9
- Index
- Model ISBN: 9780060731328
Freakonomics
- Freakonomics was one of the bestselling books of all time, selling more than three million copies and dominating the New York Times list for two straight years.
- SuperFreakonomics is based on all-new, revolutionary, research and original studies by Steven Levitt. The presentation of this material has not appeared anywhere until now.
- The authors have a very popular blog on the New York Times website, which Time magazine recently named as one of the top ten blogs in the world. Its subject matter, like the book that inspired it, extends beyond the world of economics, making it popular with a wide audience
- Freakonomics was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, a Book Sense Book of the Year, a Quill Award-winner for the Best Business Book, and a finalist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Levitt has won the American Economic Association’s prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given to the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline.
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Freakonomics Rev Ed
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Hardcover
- 9780061234002
- 10/17/2006
- $29.95 ($38.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Freakonomics Rev Ed Unabridged CD
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Audio
- 9780061238536
- Reader: Stephen J. Dubner
- Media: CDs
- 10/17/2006
- $34.99 ($44.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Also Available
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt
- Trade PB
- 9780060731335
- 8/25/2009
- $15.99 ($19.99)
SuperFreakonomics Unabridged CD
Steven D. Levitt
- Audio
- 9780060889357
- Reader: Stephen J. Dubner
- Media: CDs
- 10/20/2009
- $34.99 ($44.99)
SuperFreakonomics LP
Steven D. Levitt
- Large Print
- 9780061927577
- 11/10/2009
- $29.99 ($38.99)
SuperFreakonomics 9c flr
Steven D. Levitt
- 9780061924835
- 10/20/2009
- 9-Copy Floor Display
- $269.91 ($350.91)
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"Intoxicatingly readable."
- Washington Post
“Steven Levitt has the most interesting mind in America, and reading Freakonomics is like going for a leisurely walk with him on a sunny summer day, as he waves his fingers in the air and turns everything you once thought to be true inside out. Prepare to be dazzled.”
- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, The Tipping Point, and Blink
“We think we know how the world operates, but we really don’t. . . . Freakonomics uses the science of economics and concrete data to challenge our assumptions about everything. . . . You’ll walk away with not only a few good party tidbits, but also a more critical eye to many things presented as fact.”
- Harvard Business Review
“If Indiana Jones were an economist, he’d be Steven Levitt. . . . Mr. Levitt is famous not as a master of dry technical arcana but as a maverick treasure hunter who relies for success on his wit, pluck and disregard for conventional wisdom. His genius is to take a seemingly meaningless set of numbers, ferret out the telltale pattern and recognize what it means . . . Freakonomics reads like a detective novel. . . . Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae.”
- Wall Street Journal
“Freakonomics just might be the first data-analysis book that also qualifies as a beach read. . . . It is a series of provocative but persuasive, clearly articulated conclusions about hot-button social issues—crime, abortion, cheating on tests, class consciousness, parenting—leavened by anecdotes and dryly humorous asides. ”
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An unconventional economist defies conventional wisdom."
- Associated Press
“Freakonomics’ strength lies in its style and the authors’ willingness to challenge conventional wisdom in matters big and small. Their political incorrectness, in choice of subjects and conclusions, is refreshing and fun.”
- Chicago Sunday Tribune
“[Levitt and Dubner’s] clever juxtapositions, the way they consistently mine illuminating truths by contrasting seemingly unrelated topics, is what makes Freakonomics a romp of a read. . . . Freakonomics is a splendid book, full of unlikely but arresting historical details that distinguish the authors from the run of pop social scientists.”
- New York Times
"A delight . . . fascinating. . . . It shows, in fact, what plain old-fashioned economics can do in the hands of a boundlessly curious and superbly skilled practitioner."
- The Economist
"An econ tome for both freaks and geeks. . . . Armed with the attitude of a puzzle solver and the tools of statistical economics, Levitt finds different ways to get answers. . . . In his hands, economics, far from being a dismal science, is a tool for the curious."
- Fortune