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A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.
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An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.
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Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
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When people don't pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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Just Like Canada, with Better Bacon
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Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think - or to even spend much time thinking at all.
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Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.
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It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.
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Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.
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Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
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There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.
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Come up with a terrible idea? No problem - just don't act on it.
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
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Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
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If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.
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The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
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Poverty is a symptom - of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
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Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious.
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If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question.
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As the Inuits say, "Gifts make slaves, as whips make dogs.
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Don't listen to what people say; watch what they do.
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Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the "right" thing to do.
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Vegans are still considered as sort of "out there," a fringe group of animal rights activists with pasty skin and protein issues. However,
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When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrentall depending on who wields it and how. — Steven D. Levitt
Nor should failure be considered a total loss.
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
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Mullaney often took the subway to visit the client. His ride sometimes coincided with the end of the school day;
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Borody claims to have used fecal transplants to effectively cure people who were suffering from ulcerative colitis - which, he says, was
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Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon
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An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory intoconventional wisdom. — Steven D. Levitt
If you really want to persuade someone who doesn't wish to be persuaded, you should tell him a story.
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
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Failure may be an option but quitting is not.
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Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.
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The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
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Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.
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So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.
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The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher than a child with no books.
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There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other
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If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.
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Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.
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But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.
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The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
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Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
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Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Or,
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Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
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Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
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Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.
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Don't trust, just verify.
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Goldstein found that on average, the people in his experiment "enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.
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A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
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What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
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it is even harder to persuade people who do not wish to be persuaded.
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Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.
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The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same.
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
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Tetlock's words, even when their predictions prove
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Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.
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Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.
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Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
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Would a diet high in omega-3 lead to world peace?
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Kangaroo farts, as fate would have it, don't contain methane.
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If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.
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An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.
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As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
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For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
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