When To Rob A Bank by Steven D. Levitt

and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

A lively collection of essays and anecdotes that applies economic reasoning and data-driven sleuthing to oddball questions and everyday mysteries, using personal stories, empirical evidence, and playful thought experiments to reveal how incentives, unintended consequences, and human behavior shape crime, markets, education, and public policy—often yielding counterintuitive lessons about when conventional wisdom fails and how to think more clearly about real-world problems.