Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J

ISBN 10: 0062218344 / ISBN 13: 9780062218346

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062218344
• ISBN 13: 9780062218346
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 37 ounces

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Synopsis

In this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak.

With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. In Think Like A Freak, they offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria.

Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing—and so much fun to read.

This paperback edition includes a new Q&A with the authors.

About the Authors

Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most influential American economist under forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.

Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning journalist and radio and TV personality, has worked for the New York Times and published three non-Freakonomics books. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio and Tell Me Something I Don't Know.

Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality. He quit his first career—as an almost rock star—to become a writer. He has since taught English at Columbia, worked for The New York Times, and published three non-Freakonomics books.