Quotes by : Steven D. Levitt

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

By the time most people pick up a parenting book, it is far too late. Most of the things that matter....

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....

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

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.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

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