Quotes by : Steven D. Levitt

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....

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.

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....

It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and....

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