Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, whereas economics represents how it actually does work.Steven D. Levitt
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.Steven D. Levitt
People respond to incentives, albeit in generally predictable ways.Steven D. Levitt
Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.Steven D. Levitt
Information is the currency of the internet. As a medium, the internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it to those who do not.Steven D. Levitt
The most likely victims of hate crimes are those who least think about hate crimes. Perhaps they are too busy thinking about princesses or schoolyard games or the beauty in everything that greets their eyes.Steven D. Levitt
Books like The Tipping Point and Freakonomics have proven that we are all fascinated, more than ever, by the complex realities of our world.Steven D. Levitt
The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it.Steven D. Levitt
Just because a question has never been asked does not make it good.Steven D. Levitt
If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.Steven D. Levitt