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

Levitt, Steven D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062451936 ISBN 13: 9780062451934

Publisher: Harper Collins USA, 2015

Synopsis

Why dont 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. Now the very best of this writing has been carefully curated into one volume, the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics.
Discover why taller people tend to make more money; why it's so hard to predict the Kentucky Derby winner ...

About this title

Review:

"[A] kooky and counterintuitive collection of economic analysis. ... Plenty to revel in."--Kirkus

"Praise for the Freaknomics Books""Genius ... has you gasping in amazement."--Wall Street Journal

"We are all Freakonomists now."--Washington Post

"An afternoon with Levitt and Dubner's book will transform you into the most interesting person in the room that evening."--National Public Radio

"A splendid book, full of unlikely but arresting historical details that distinguish the authors from the run of pop social scientists."--New York Times

"An addictive, irresistible crash course in the populist application of economics."--The A.V. Club

"Good ideas ... expressed with panache."--Financial Times

"Lively, self-deprecating writing ensures an entertaining read for fans and new readers alike."--Publishers Weekly

"Praise for the Freakonomics Books: " "Genius... has you gasping in amazement."--Wall Street Journal

Lively, self-deprecating writing ensures an entertaining read for fans and new readers alike. --Publishers Weekly"

From the Author:

Steven David "Steve" Levitt is a prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the Alvin H. Baum Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press. He is one of the most well known economists amongst laymen, having co-authored the best-selling book Freakonomics (2005). Levitt was chosen as one of Time Magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins USA
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062451936
• ISBN 13: 9780062451934
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400