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....

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.

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

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

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

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