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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain de Steven D. Levitt

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

Autor Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2015

Put away your moral compass. Learn to say "I don't know." Think like a child.Take a master class in incentives. Appreciate the upside of quitting. . . . And more

Think Like a Freak is Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally to think, that is, like a Freak.

Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They 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.

Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing and so much fun to read."

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ISBN-13: 9780606369411
ISBN-10: 0606369414
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Bound for Schoo
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything.
Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems. 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.

Recenzii

“Utterly captivating.” — Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Blink, The Tipping Point, and David and Goliath
“Over nine entertaining chapters [Levitt and Dubner] demonstrate how not to fall into hackneyed approaches to solving problems and concretely illustrate how to reframe questions.” — New York Daily News
“Compelling and fun.” — New York Post
“This book will change your life.” — Daily Express (London)
“Good ideas... expressed with panache.” — Financial Times
“An interesting and thought-provoking read.” — The Horn
“Their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally --- to think, that is, like a Freak.” — Bookreporter.com

Notă biografică

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 the age of forty. He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.
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 worked forThe New York Timesand published three non-Freakonomics books. He lives with his family in New York City.