“Our worst critics prefer to stay.”
―
Stephen J. Dubner,
When to Rob a Bank
“A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn't there a bit more crime?After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to main, steal, and defraud. The chance of going to jail—thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties—is certainly a strong incentive. But when it comes to crime people also respond to moral incentives (they don't want to do something they consider wrong) and social incentives (they don't want to be seen by others as doing something wrong).” ― Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
“If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It'll be too little, too late, and too optimistic - in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.” ― Stephen J. Dubner
“Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.” ― Stephen J. Dubner, Think Like a Freak
“Thỉnh thoảng, các nhà khoa học xã hội có nói về khái niệm "căn tính". Đó là quan niệm cho rằng bạn có một tầm nhìn cụ thể về kiểu người của mình và bạn cảm thấy tệ hại khi làm những việc chệch ra khỏi tầm nhìn đó. Điều này dẫn bạn tới chỗ thực hiện những hành động có vẻ không vì lợi ích tốt nhất của mình.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
“So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? As far as crime is concerned, it turns out that not all children are born equal. Not even close. Decades of studies have shown that a child born into an adverse family environment is far more likely than other children to become a criminal. And the millions of women most likely to have an abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade—poor, unmarried, and teenage mothers for whom illegal abortions had been too expensive or too hard to get—were often models of adversity. They were the very women whose children, if born, would have been much more likely than average to become criminals. But because of Roe v. Wade, these children weren’t being born.” ― Steven D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
“(From an interview with Daniel Kahneman)Q. Is it possible that one barrier for women trying to work in male-dominated fields is that such an environment demands extra mental effort on behalf of the women? A. Being self-conscious takes up mental capacity and is certainly not good for performance. Furthermore, the more self-conscious you are, the more likely you are to interpret (and sometimes misinterpret) the attitudes of others as gender-based, which is bound to make things worse. However, there is hope: self-consciousness is likely to diminish when you are in a stable environment, interacting with people you know well. The trend appears to be favorable: improving attitudes of men, rising representation of women in many male-dominated occupations, so the future is likely to be better than the past.” ― Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
“offered me new perspectives: the works of Ken Blanchard, of Tom Friedman and of Seth Godin, The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, E-Myth by Michael Gerber, The Tipping Point and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Chaos by James Gleick, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath, Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D., The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, FISH! By Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen and Ken Blanchard, The Naked Brain by Richard Restack, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb, American Mania by Peter Whybrow, M.D., and the single most important book everyone should read, the book that teaches us that we cannot control the circumstances around us, all we can control is our attitude—Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I” ― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“People aren't" good"or "bad". People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated - for good or ill-if only you find the right levers.” ― Steven D.Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner
“It's easy to let your biases - political, intellectual, or otherwise - color your view of the world.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
“What the link between abortion and crime does say is this: when the government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decision about abortion, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well.” ― Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
“Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded” ― Anonymous
“Morning robberies yield far more than afternoon robberies . . .' - When to Rob a Bank: A Rouge Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner” ― Steven D. Levitt, When to Rob a Bank
“Since big problems are usually a dense mass of intertwined small problems, you can make more progress by tackling a small piece of the big problem than by flailing away at grand solutions.” ― Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
“A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn't there a bit more crime?After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to main, steal, and defraud. The chance of going to jail—thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties—is certainly a strong incentive. But when it comes to crime people also respond to moral incentives (they don't want to do something they consider wrong) and social incentives (they don't want to be seen by others as doing something wrong).” ― Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
“If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It'll be too little, too late, and too optimistic - in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.” ― Stephen J. Dubner
“Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.” ― Stephen J. Dubner, Think Like a Freak
“Thỉnh thoảng, các nhà khoa học xã hội có nói về khái niệm "căn tính". Đó là quan niệm cho rằng bạn có một tầm nhìn cụ thể về kiểu người của mình và bạn cảm thấy tệ hại khi làm những việc chệch ra khỏi tầm nhìn đó. Điều này dẫn bạn tới chỗ thực hiện những hành động có vẻ không vì lợi ích tốt nhất của mình.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
“So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? As far as crime is concerned, it turns out that not all children are born equal. Not even close. Decades of studies have shown that a child born into an adverse family environment is far more likely than other children to become a criminal. And the millions of women most likely to have an abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade—poor, unmarried, and teenage mothers for whom illegal abortions had been too expensive or too hard to get—were often models of adversity. They were the very women whose children, if born, would have been much more likely than average to become criminals. But because of Roe v. Wade, these children weren’t being born.” ― Steven D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
“(From an interview with Daniel Kahneman)Q. Is it possible that one barrier for women trying to work in male-dominated fields is that such an environment demands extra mental effort on behalf of the women? A. Being self-conscious takes up mental capacity and is certainly not good for performance. Furthermore, the more self-conscious you are, the more likely you are to interpret (and sometimes misinterpret) the attitudes of others as gender-based, which is bound to make things worse. However, there is hope: self-consciousness is likely to diminish when you are in a stable environment, interacting with people you know well. The trend appears to be favorable: improving attitudes of men, rising representation of women in many male-dominated occupations, so the future is likely to be better than the past.” ― Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
“offered me new perspectives: the works of Ken Blanchard, of Tom Friedman and of Seth Godin, The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, E-Myth by Michael Gerber, The Tipping Point and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Chaos by James Gleick, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath, Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D., The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, FISH! By Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen and Ken Blanchard, The Naked Brain by Richard Restack, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, The Black Swan by Nicholas Taleb, American Mania by Peter Whybrow, M.D., and the single most important book everyone should read, the book that teaches us that we cannot control the circumstances around us, all we can control is our attitude—Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I” ― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“People aren't" good"or "bad". People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated - for good or ill-if only you find the right levers.” ― Steven D.Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner
“It's easy to let your biases - political, intellectual, or otherwise - color your view of the world.” ― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
“What the link between abortion and crime does say is this: when the government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decision about abortion, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well.” ― Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
“Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded” ― Anonymous
“Morning robberies yield far more than afternoon robberies . . .' - When to Rob a Bank: A Rouge Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner” ― Steven D. Levitt, When to Rob a Bank
“Since big problems are usually a dense mass of intertwined small problems, you can make more progress by tackling a small piece of the big problem than by flailing away at grand solutions.” ― Stephen D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner
