Steven D.Levitt

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

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    famously reluctant to give the agency more resources to do its job.
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    exaggerating by a factor of five
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    could collect more than $9 billion each year and spend only $296 million—or about three cents on the dollar—to do so
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    But what’s most striking to me
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    Which, if you think about it, is an optimistic view of the world.
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    For most government officials, there is much more pressure to look like you are trying to stop terrorism than there is to actually stop it.
  • mo9fhas quoted4 years ago
    Some of the best ideas in history—nearly all of them, in fact—sounded crazy at first. That said, a lot of crazy-sounding ideas truly are crazy
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    When You’re a Jet . . .” shows that once you start thinking like an economist, it’s hard to turn it off—
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    Let’s just give it a try
  • mo9fhas quoted4 years ago
    Dubner had always thought it strange that so many people would pay good money for a bottle of water. And yet they do, to the tune of roughly $100 billion a year
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