Quotes by : Steven D. Levitt

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising....

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though....

The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of....

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about....

An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.

Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond....

When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no....

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the....