I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
