Summary of Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner's When to Rob a Bank

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 We started a blog, which was called Freakonomics. com. It offered a blogging function. I had never heard of a blog, much less written one, but Levitt was unconvinced. Let’s just give it a try, Dubner said.

#2 The blog was a way for the authors to express their opinions about the world, and it has been a happy home for that. The blog writing is more casual and personal than book writing, and the authors enjoy writing it.

#3 We have collected the best posts from the blog and arranged them into chapters that make sense as a book. You will learn more than you ever wanted to know about our personal obsessions like golf, gambling, and the dreaded penny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669384854

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We started a blog, which was called Freakonomics. com. It offered a blogging function. I had never heard of a blog, much less written one, but Levitt was unconvinced. Let’s just give it a try, Dubner said.

#2

The blog was a way for the authors to express their opinions about the world, and it has been a happy home for that. The blog writing is more casual and personal than book writing, and the authors enjoy writing it.

#3

We have collected the best posts from the blog and arranged them into chapters that make sense as a book. You will learn more than you ever wanted to know about our personal obsessions like golf, gambling, and the dreaded penny.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The best way to terrorize the American people is to do something that generates fear, and then claim that an army of terrorists exists. It is also important to have your terrorists not be killed or caught in the act, if possible.

#2

There are a multitude of simple strategies available to terrorists. The fact that there has not been a major terrorist attack in the United States in six years suggests that the terrorists are incompetent, or that their goal isn’t to generate terror.

#3

The second view is that the main reason we aren't being decimated by terrorists is because the government's anti-terror efforts have been successful. The first view is that the terror risk just isn't that high, and we are greatly overspending on fighting it.

#4

The IRS has outsourced the collection of back taxes to third parties, which will cost the government $1. 4 billion over 10 years. Congress is reluctant to give the IRS more resources to do its job.

#5

The public library is one of the greatest things about America, but book publishers hate it. Without the library, book sales would be reduced because readers would never get the opportunity to read books they don’t own.

#6

The idea that tenure protects scholars who are doing politically unpopular