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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Book by Steven Levitt · 10 quotes · Economics, Freakonomics, Answers

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“After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.”