Cuando Robar Un Banco / When to Rob a Bank

from jpporter

If your into the nouveau economics as Durbin and Levitt expound, this is an interesting book that looks into the kind of phenomena nouveau economists like to dabble with. Very interesting, humorous, and enlightening. The book consists of blogs the Freakonomics authors post on their website. guara...

from nbmars

Levitt and Dubner became famous ten years ago when they published Freakonomics, a book with many thought-provoking and counter-intuitive insights on human behavior and society. Most of those insights were stimulated by careful economic analysis. Among their more startling conclusions was that the...

from vguy

Great fun - a fairly random compilation of their blog posts. Reads a bit like a Swiftian satire or a fantasy world along the lines of : "What If...people really behaved in line with economic theory ?" Best joke is the idea of paying Saddam Hussein $100 billion to retire, i.e. a bit less than the ...

from davevanl

I guess it is the result of the bog approach, but the interest level was almost like a sine curve; massively interesting mixed with almost boring with a bit of so-so in between. Maybe blogging promotes an obligation to write even when the substance is missing?

from bell7

The authors of Freakonomics collect favorite posts from their blog. Each chapter thematically explores a variety of topics from sex to criminal behavior to gambling, and a myriad of other subjects, all the while applying the same economic reasoning they have used in their books, albeit in bite-si...