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SuperFreakonomics

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Levitt and Dubner use quirky case studies to show how incentives, unintended consequences, and unconventional questions can reveal hidden patterns.

What stuck

  • Unusual questions are often more revealing than respectable ones.
  • The useful habit is to follow incentives and unintended consequences wherever they lead.