The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way
returns in a new edition now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and
bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth. Which is more dangerous a gun or a
swimming pool? Which should be feared more: snakes or french fries? Why do sumo wrestlers
cheat? In this groundbreaking book leading economist Steven Levitt?Professor of Economics at
the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark
medal for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the
discipline?reveals that the answers. Joined by acclaimed author and podcast host Stephen J.
Dubner Levitt presents a brilliant?and brilliantly entertaining?account of how incentives of
the most hidden sort drive behavior in ways that turn conventional wisdom on its head.
