Quotes by : Steven D. Levitt

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

What most of these doomsday scenarios have gotten wrong is the fundamental idea of economics: people....

But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance....

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....

Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a....

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....