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For the person who may want to learn how to ‘think like a freak’, this is the perfect book. All of the Freakonomics books have the same intention throughout: challenging conventional wisdom, using data to answer questions rather than emotions, and learning to unravel the secret codes of the world. The authors have used their knowledge and made a readable tool-kit of it for the purpose of thinking differently. Summary of the Book Think Like A Freak is a book for the individual who is looking forward to unusual solutions to their problems. As you keep reading this book, you will find interesting ways and techniques for a hot dog eating competition, reasons as to why an Australian doctor swallowed a whole lot of dangerous bacteria, why Nigerian e-mail scammers ensure that they mention the fact that they are from Nigeria, and why Van Halen’s tour contract that demanded the banning of M&Ms was actually a safety measure. One will realize that it is okay for us to put down our moral ways of thinking and think like children once in a while. Get a master class in incentives because incentives are some of the best things that we work for. Learn to leave behind the problems of yesterday in order to deal with your problems of today. About Steven D. Levitt Stephen D. Levitt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Here, he directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. In 2003, he was the winner of the John Bates Clark Medal which is given as recognition for the most outstanding economist in America who is under the age of 40. He obtained a Ph.D. from MIT in the year 1994. About Stephen J. Dubner Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, TV and radio personality. He has written other books apart from Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics like: Turbulent Souls (Choose My Religion), Confessions of a Hero Worshipper, and The Boy With Two Belly Buttons.