关于本书 About the book
星期几抢银行最容易成功？为什么不要跟叫韦恩的人做朋友？买两个鸡翅比买三个更划算？性生活应不应该交税？这些看似无厘头的问题背后，其实都蕴含着许多深奥的经济学道理。《魔鬼经济学4》从经济学的角度提到了我们日常生活中的一些非常奇怪的现象，研究这些平常事物背后的经济学，可以让我们了解人们的想法、情绪和行动背后所隐藏的动机。
本书金句 Key insights
● 有一个叫斯图尔特的读者，她喜欢收集有关犯罪新闻的剪报。她发现这些新闻里的罪犯们都有一个共同特征——他们的中间名都叫韦恩，这些简报数量多得让人不信都不行。
- One freakonomics reader, M. R. Stewart, has an unusual hobby. She collects newspaper clippings about crime. And all the clippings feature perpetrators who have one thing in common: their middle name is Wayne.
● 美国政府还让1美分在市场上流通，但是生产这1美分的成本已经远远超过它自身的价值。
- The U.S. government keeps the one cent piece in circulation, even though the cost of producing one cent by far exceeds its value.
● 我们应该小心身边的熟人，而不是无缘无故地怀疑素不相识的人。
- It’s the people we know whom we should be wariest of, as opposed to those we don’t know.
● 我们自以为环保的很多做法，实际上反而让情况更糟糕，比如说开车对环境造成的破坏就比我们想象中小得多。
- How do we address climate change, especially when we’re unwittingly worsening the situation by doing things we think will help? Driving, for example, is sometimes far less harmful to the environment than we think.
● 哪天抢银行最好呢？根据来自美国新泽西的抢银行老手，最好的日子是星期四。
- What’s the best day to rob a bank? According to one very successful New Jersey bank robber, the answer is Thursday.