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Super Freakonomics

Disciplines:
economics
popular science
behavior
incentives

Summary

Levitt and Dubner's 2009 sequel to Freakonomics — covering global warming, terrorism, and other topics through economic analysis — controversial for its climate chapter.

Core Contribution

Extends the Freakonomics method — SuperFreakonomics applies the rogue economics method to new domains; the global warming chapter (arguing for geoengineering solutions) generated the most controversy of any chapter in the franchise.

Historical Influences

Freakonomics method

Intellectual Lineage

Levitt and Dubner William Morrow

Allied Works

Freakonomics Think Like a Freak

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Popular economics

Intellectual Posterity

SuperFreakonomics

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