I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class. — 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
