TO CHINESE READERS Dear Chinese readers Welcome to the revised and expanded edition of freakonomics! We are delighted to learn that our book has been popular with Chinese readers, particularly since one of us (Levitt) has two adopted daughters from China, and since the other one(Dubner) has a young son whose best friend is a Chinese immigrant in New York We are also thrilled to have received a"Maverick "" commendation for 2006 financial publications in China, and thank you for this great honor Our publisher has passed along many of your comments and concerns, such as how to tackle the real-estate problems in China. We will do our best to answer such questions in future work. We are working on our next book but it probably wont be published for at least three years. In the meantime, we keep up a steady dialogue between readers on our website, at www Freakonomics. com. Please come visit us there and. more than anything, thank you for reading Sincerely, 死2