What does it mean to think like a freak?: An endless supply of fascinating questions ; The pros and cons of breast-feeding, fracking, and virtual currencies ; There is no magic Freakonomics tool ; Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger ; How to win the World Cup ; Private benefits vs. the greater good ; Thinking with a different set of muscles ; Are married people happy or do happy people marry? ; Get famous by thinking just once or twice a week ; Our disastrous meeting with the future prime minister -- The three hardest words in the English language: Why is "I don't know" so hard to say? ; Sure, kids make up answers but why do we? ; Who believes in the devil? ; And who believes 9/11 was an inside job? ; "Entrepreneurs of error" ; Why measuring cause-and-effect is so hard ; The folly of prediction ; Are your predictions better than a dart-throwing chimp? ; The Internet's economic impact will be "no greater than the fax machine's" ; "Ultracrepidarianism" ; The cost of pretending to know more than you do ; How should bad predictions be punished? ; The Romanian witch hunt ; The first step in solving problems: put away your moral compass ; Why suicide rises with quality of life, and how little we know about suicide ; Feedback is the key to all learning ; How bad were the first loaves of bread? ; Don't leave experimentation to the scientists ; Does more expensive wine taste better? -- What's your problem?: If you ask the wrong question, you'll surely get the wrong answer ; What does "school reform" really mean? ; Why do American kids know less than kids from Estonia? ; Maybe it's the parents' fault! ; The amazing true story of Takeru Kobayashi, hot-dog-eating champion ; Fifty hot dogs in twelve minutes! ; So how did he do it? ; And why was he so much better than everyone else? ; "To eat quickly is not very good manners" ; The Solomon Method ; Endless experimentation in pursuit of excellence ; Arrested! ; How to redefine the problem you are trying to solve ; The brain is the critical organ ; How to ignore artificial barriers ; Can you do 20 push-ups? --