When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

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Freakonomics com by Steven D Levitt has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe It s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics Surprising and erudite eloquent and witty When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation with more than 7 million books sold in 40 languages and 150 million downloads of their Freakonomics Radio podcast When Freakonomics was first published the authors started a blog and they ve kept it up The writing is more casual more personal even more outlandish than in their books In When to Rob a Bank they ask a host of typically off center questions Why don t flight attendants get tipped If you were a terrorist how would you attack And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken Over the past decade Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner have published more than 8 000 blog posts on Freakonomics com Many of them they freely admit were rubbish But now they ve gone through and picked the best of the best You ll discover what people lie about and why the best way to cut gun deaths why it might be time for a sex tax and yes when to rob a bank Short answer never the ROI is terrible You ll also learn a great deal about Levitt and Dubner s own quirks and passions from gambling and golf to backgammon and the abolition of the penny Steven D Levitt a professor of economics at the University of Chicago was awarded the John Bates Clark medal given to the most influential American economist under forty He is also a founder of The Greatest Good which applies Freakonomics style thinking to business and philanthropy Stephen J Dubner is an award winning author journalist and radio and TV personality He quit his first career as an almos