People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people.… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
It's amazing how unwilling most people are to admit they don't know the answer to a question or a problem and instead… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they're also scared of it… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution? — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
