University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt is a co-author with Stephen Dubner of SuperFreakonomics .
Four years ago, economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner produced a sensation. Their book, Freakonomics , described how Levitt and a few other scholars used the techniques of economics to examine quirky topics and controversial ones. There was a chapter on cheating among sumo wrestlers, another on the profitability of drug-dealing, yet another on the possible link between liberalized abortion laws and falling crime rates and much more (the subtitle was A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything ).
The book was a surprise mega best seller, with more than 4 million copies now in print worldwide....
