{"id":3981,"date":"2013-01-14T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2013-01-14T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:55:19","slug":"monday-book-pick-super-freakonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/monday-book-pick-super-freakonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Super Freakonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B002R2OFGY\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><b>Super Freakonomics<\/b><\/a> by Steven D. Levitt and SStephen J. Dubner<\/p>\n<p>The Rogue Economists are back. This one is as fun as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060731338\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\">the first one<\/a>. They tackle a wide range of issues, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why walking drunk as, if not more, dangerous than driving drunk<\/li>\n<li>This history of the economics of prostitution in the US, and a look at the low and high ends of modern prositution in the US.<\/li>\n<li>Why the solutions to global climate change a group of really smart people came up with are so different than the solutions Algore wants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, there is more, those are just a sample. Here is one data point that shouldn&#8217;t suprise you, a &#8220;low end&#8221; prostitute in Chicago is much more likely to have sex with a Chicago police officer than be arrested by Chicago police officer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and SStephen J. Dubner The Rogue Economists are back. This one is as fun as the first one. They tackle a wide range of issues, including: Why walking drunk as, if not more, dangerous than driving drunk This history of the economics of prostitution in the US, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[165,294,532],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-monday-book-pick","tag-book","tag-economy","tag-monday-book-pick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-12d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}