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Books like Freakonomics

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is about incentives, hidden information, data analysis. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Thinking, Fast and Slow

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

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  2. Outliers: The Story of Success
    Outliers: The Story of Success

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    Outliers: The Story of Success

    Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology

    Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.

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  3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
    Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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    Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · Economics

    Nudge is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's argument that the way choices are presented — the default option, the order of items, the framing of a question — powerfully shapes what people decide, often more than their own stated preferences.

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  4. Predictably Irrational
    Predictably Irrational

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    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely · Psychology

    Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.

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  5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Science

    The Black Swan is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that the most consequential events in history — financial crashes, technological breakthroughs, wars, pandemics — are not predictable outliers but structurally unpredictable ones.

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  6. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    Thomas Phelps · Economics

    100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.

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