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Economics The 'Freakonomics' authors on everything you never knew you wanted to know about sex and terror Superfreakonomics By Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner Allen Lane Pounds 20

Levitt and Dubner, in this "freakquel" to their wildly successful 2005 book Freakonomics, offer another collection of "things you always thought you knew but didn't; and things you never knew you wanted to know but do"." Such as, why it's more likely that you'll die as a drunk pedestrian than a drunk driver, and how monkeys can be taught to use money. So it's great fun. It doesn't quite scale the controversial heights of their first effort, which alleged that the cause of the fall in the crime rate in the ...

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