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SuperFreakonomics
  Global
 Cooling,
 Patriotic
 Prostitutes,
 and
 Why
 Suicide
 Bombers
 Should
 Buy
 Life
 Insurance
 Steven
  D.
 Levitt
 &
 Stephen
 J.
 Dubner
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 Contents
  An
 Explanatory
 Note
 In
 which
 we
 admit
 to
 lying
 in
 our
 previous
 book.
 Introduction:
 Putting the
  Freak
 in
 Economics
 In
 which
 the
 global
 financial
 meltdown
 is
 entirely
 ignored
 in
 favor
 of
 more
  engaging
 topics.
  The
  perils
  of
  walking
  drunk.
  The
  unlikely
  savior
  of
  Indian
  women.
  Drowning
  in
  horse
  manure.
  What
  is
  ‘freakonomics,’  anyway?.
  Toothless
  sharks
  and
  bloodthirsty
  elephants.
  Things
  you
  always
 thought
 you
 knew
 but
 didn’t.
  Chapter
  1
  How
  is
  a
  Street
  Prostitute
  Like
  a
  Department-­‐Store
  Santa?
  In
  which
  we
  explore
  the
  various
 costs
 of
 being
 a
 woman.  Meet
  LaSheena,
  a
  part-­‐time
  prostitute.
  One
  million
  dead
  ‘witches’.
  The
  many
  ways
  in
  which
  females
 are
 punished
 for
 being
 born
 female.
 Even
 Radcliffe
 women
 pay
 the
 price.
 Title
 IX
 creates
  jobs
 for
 women.
 
 men
 take
 them.
 1
 of every
 50
 women
 a
 prostitute.
 The
 booming
 sex
 trade
 in
  old-­‐time
 Chicago.
 A
 survey
 like
 no
 other.
 The
 erosion
 of
 prostitute
 pay.
 Why
 did
 oral
 sex
 get
 so
  cheap?.
  Pimps
  versus
  Realtors.
  Why
  cops
  love
  prostitutes.
  Where
  did
  all
  the  schoolteachers
  go?.
  What
 really
 accounts
 for
 the
 male-­‐female
 wage
 gap?.
 Do
 men
 love
 money
 the
 way
 women
 love
  kids?.
 Can
 a
 sex
 change
 boost
 your
 salary?.
 Meet
 Allie,
 the
 happy
 prostitute.
 
 why
 aren’t
 there
  more
 women
 like
 her?
 Chapter
  2
  Why
  Should
  Suicide
  Bombers
  Buy
  Life
  Insurance?
  In
  which
  we
  discuss
  compelling
  aspects
 of
 birth
 and
 death,
 though
 primarily
 death.
  The
  worst
  month
  to
  have
  a
  baby.
  The
  natal
  roulette
  affects
  horses
  too.
  Why
  Albert
  Aab  will
  outshine
  Albert
  Zyzmor.
  The
  birthdate
  bulge.
  Where
  does
  talent
  come
  from?.
  Some
  families
  produce
  baseball
  players.
 
  others
  produce
  terrorists.
  Why
  terrorism
  is
  so
  cheap
  and
  easy.
  The
  trickle-­‐down
  effects
  of
  September
  11.  The
  man
  who
  fixes
  hospitals.
  Why
  the
  newest
  ERs
  are
  already
 obsolete.
 How
 can
 you
 tell
 a
 good
 doctor
 from
 a
 bad
 one?.
 ’Bitten
 by
 a
 client
 at
 work’.
  Why
  you
  want
  your
  ER
  doc
  to
  be
  a
  woman.
  A
  variety
  of
 ways
  to
  postpone
  death.
  Why
  is
  chemotherapy
 so
 widely
 used
 when
 it
 so
 rarely
 works?.
 ’We’re
 still
 getting
 our
 butts
 kicked
 by
  cancer’.
 War:
 not
 as
 dangerous
 as
 you
 think?.
 How
 to
 catch
 a
 terrorist.
  Chapter
 3
 Unbelievable
 Stories
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