Management
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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