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A delightfully irreverent romp through the hidden incentives and bizarre data points that secretly govern our everyday lives. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with When to Rob a Bank.
- intellectually playful
- breezy
- curious
- 01
Superfreakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
A playful, data-driven joyride that flips conventional wisdom on its head and reveals the hidden gears of human behavior.
- 02
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 2006
A playful, data-driven dismantling of conventional wisdom that makes you question everything you thought you knew about how the world works.
- 03
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
A playful, eye-opening tour through the hidden forces that secretly pull the strings of our daily decisions.
- 04
Perfectly irrational
Dan Ariely
A playful, eye-opening tour through the hidden quirks and cognitive blind spots that secretly run our lives.
- 05
Discover Your Inner Economist
Tyler Cowen
A pragmatic and intellectually stimulating guide to hacking the hidden incentives that drive our daily lives.
- 06
Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler
A witty, eye-opening tour through the delightfully irrational quirks of human decision-making.
- 07
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan
A thought-provoking exploration of how the feeling of not having enough rewires our brains and shapes our world.
- 08
The undercover economist strikes back
Tim Harford
A witty, jargon-free tour through the hidden gears of the global economy that makes macroeconomics feel like a fascinating dinner party conversation.
- 09
Soccernomics
Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
A clever, myth-busting exploration that strips away the romanticism of the beautiful game to reveal the fascinating, counterintuitive logic running beneath the pitch.
- 10
How to fail at almost everything and still win big
Scott Adams
A wry, contrarian playbook for turning a string of embarrassing failures into a personalized system for success.
- 11
When
Daniel H. Pink
An energizing, data-driven exploration that turns the abstract concept of time into a tangible tool for a better life.
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Esther Duflo
A compassionate, myth-busting journey through modern policy that replaces partisan panic with evidence-based hope.
