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
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
