He quit his first career-as an almost-rock-star-to become a writer. Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality.

He is also a founder of The Greatest Good, which applies Freakonomics-style thinking to business and philanthropy.Stephen J. 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. (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. 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. But now they've gone through and picked the best of the best. Many of them, they freely admit, were rubbish. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on. 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. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. 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. It's the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe.

When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt