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A review by palegreenshutters
When to Rob a Bank: ...and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4.0
I listened to the audio book on loan from the library. Since it is a collection of blog posts, if you read the blog there won't be much, if anything, new for you. This is fairly typical, as the last two freakonomics books have been, essentially, a collection of podcast summaries. However, I don't read the blog, so it was all new material for me.
These are not the well thought out and researched ideas normally published by the Freakonomics guys. They are much more raw and off the cuff, as you would expect a casual blog post to be. As such, they are based more in opinion than facts and data, so I found myself disagreeing with them a lot more than I usually do, as well as finding more holes in their arguments.
However, because it is not as polished, you do get a better sense of what it might be like to actually have a conversation with Dubner and Levitt, and see how their minds look at everyday occurrences, which is kind of cool.
These are not the well thought out and researched ideas normally published by the Freakonomics guys. They are much more raw and off the cuff, as you would expect a casual blog post to be. As such, they are based more in opinion than facts and data, so I found myself disagreeing with them a lot more than I usually do, as well as finding more holes in their arguments.
However, because it is not as polished, you do get a better sense of what it might be like to actually have a conversation with Dubner and Levitt, and see how their minds look at everyday occurrences, which is kind of cool.