爭議到爆，發燒到爆，各界同聲叫怪！各界同聲叫買！
《華爾街日報》《紐約時報》《華盛頓郵報》《娛樂週刊》《經濟學人》……爭論不斷

　 　前作《蘋果橘子經濟學》(Freakonomics)，名列《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜在全球創造大轟動，自二○○五年出版至今，已在全球以三十五種語言 銷售超過四百萬冊，並且改變了我們看待此世界的方式。現在，李維特和杜伯納再度推出新作《超爆蘋果橘子經濟學》，讀者將在此續集中看到更怪誕、更有趣、更 令人驚奇的探討議題。

　　兩位作者歷時四年寫就的這本新作，引領我們深入思考一些令人費解、意想不到的問題：酒醉駕車比較危險，還是酒醉走路比較危險？化學療法的成效這麼差，為何仍然經常被採用？變性手術能幫助你提高薪資嗎？

　　■引爆火山爆發真有可能拯救地球暖化？
　　■流鶯就像百貨公司裡的聖誕老人！
　　■醫生連洗手這樣簡單的事情都做不好？
　　■兒童汽車安全座椅到底能幫父母多大的忙？
　　■捕捉恐怖分子最佳的方法和買保險有關！
　　■颶風、心臟病發作、公路死亡事故，其實存在有共通之處！
　　■吃袋鼠肉有助拯救地球！
　　■皮條客比房地產經紀人還能創造更高的價值？
　　
　　不論是大膽探究全球氣候暖化的解方，抑或解釋妓女口交價格大幅下跌的原因，李維特和杜伯納結合聰慧思考與說故事的能力，讓人看得直呼：super freak！

　　★本書中譯本《超爆蘋果橘子經濟學》由時報出版

　　The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

　　Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What’s more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it’s so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?

　　SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:

　　．How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?
　　．Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?
　　．How much good do car seats do?
　　．What’s the best way to catch a terrorist?
　　．Did TV cause a rise in crime?
　　．What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?
　　．Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?
　　．Can eating kangaroo save the planet?
　　．Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?

　　Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.

　　Freakonomics has been imitated many times over – but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.

 


　　



史帝文．李維特（Steven D. Levitt）

　　芝加哥大學經濟系教授。年僅 42歲的李維特在2003年獲頒「約翰．貝茲．克拉克獎」，許多贏得此殊榮的經濟學家後來也贏得諾貝爾經濟學獎。李維特在2006年被《時代》雜誌評選為 「對全球最具影響力的百大人物」，《經濟學人》在十年前評選他為經濟學界的八位明日之星。

　　李維特的研究與論述不僅使艱澀深奧的 經濟學變得更平易近人、饒富趣味，也啟發人們更深入思考社會與日常生活中，許多看似怪誕現象背後的道理與深義，並進而省思政策與措施的成效和影響性。他與 杜伯納和著的前一本作品《蘋果橘子經濟學》，至今已在全球以35種語言銷售，超過400萬冊。
 

史帝芬．杜伯納（Stephen J. Dubner）

　　前《紐約時報雜誌》作家與編輯，為《紐約時報》、《紐約客》等知名報章雜誌撰文，出版有多本著作。

 

       Steven D. Levitt is the Alvin H. Baum Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. In 2004, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the most influential economist in America under the age of 40. More recently, he was named one of Time magazine’s ”100 People Who Shape Our World.” Levitt received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1989, his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1994, and has taught at the University of Chicago since 1997. He coauthored the bestselling book Freakonomics with Stephen J. Dubner.


　　Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. He is the coauthor, with Steven D. Levitt, of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. He is also the author of Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son’s Return to His Jewish Family (1998), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper (2003), and a children’s book, The Boy with Two Belly Buttons (2007).