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

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.;We were only trying to help -- Limberhand the masturbator and the perils of Wayne -- Hurray for high gas prices! -- Contested -- How to be scared of the wrong thing -- If you're not cheating, you're not trying -- But is it good for the planet? -- Hit on 21 -- When to rob a bank -- More sex please, we're economists -- Kaleidoscopia -- When you're a jet.