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"global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should hire a life insurance" . This is the long subtitle of the book, which perfectly meets the expectations aroused by his first Freakonomics. As in the earlier occasion, the theme is the role of incentives in the decisions of human beings. But unlike then, the authors have endeavored to link some other chapters, which sometimes is a good demonstration of the imagination of the two authors.
The main problem, however, it does not add anything about the previous book, if any discussion of altruistic behavior of individuals and the questioning of laboratory experiments around the dictator game and the validity or otherwise of homo economicus . The rest of the book is a series of cases in which the data signal in the opposite direction making it a formal and generally accepted.
Particularly striking is the comparison between the utility of the farms brokers and pimps, leaving the comparison clearly benefit the latter. And perhaps this justifies the whole book, the epilogue entitled "monkeys are people too" , which has research Keith Chen of , teaching capuchin monkeys running the money. The description is basically creepy: the monkeys, they learn to assign monetary value behave in ways familiar to any human being.
In short, if you are passionate about the first part, maybe you should read this second, but if interested you too much or you just like what, this is a second cup of the soup. Obviously, since for this the economy could say I'm a little freak , I enjoyed almost as much as with the first book. And I laughed. And worse, I recognized some of the behaviors described.