Steven D. Levitt

Quotes

• “The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already...”
• “But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a compl...”
• “Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives...”
• “A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earni...”
• “Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily ...”
• “There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.”
• “Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.”
• “For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.”
• “Nor should failure be considered a total loss.”