What Is The Simple Model Rational Crime By Professor Dan Ariely

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This book of Professor Dan Ariely explores dishonesty and how it works in personal, professional, and political lives of people. It also shows why cheating is so predominant and what people can do to control it. I think this work was such a depressing book. But on the other hand, it is also fun and full of lessons. The experiment and examples such as the Simple Model Rational Crime, in this book were not instinctive at first, but the author can explain it into understandable statements in the end. I just found that the author sometimes based primarily on his anecdotes than the experiment itself.
Overall, it is a great work. I think I would recommend it to others especially to those people who lie and those who claimed that they did not lie.

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