Steven D.Levitt

Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist,

Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago.

inventiveness of the economist’s work and his knack for explaining it.

“I just don’t know very much about the field of economics,

What interested Levitt were the riddles of everyday life.

economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers

explaining how people get what they want.

cheating, corruption, and crime

data to catch money launderers and terrorists

modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and—if the right questions are asked—is even more intriguing than we think.