As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.
And it would be startlingly cheap. IV estimates the Save the Arctic plan could be set up in just two years at a cost of roughly $20 million, with an annual operating cost of about $10 million. If cool...
51 percent of Indian men said that wife-beating is justified under certain circumstances; more surprisingly, 54 percent of women agreed—
4,400 women are working as street prostitutes in Chicago,
Una hamburguesa con queso, como ha calculado el economista Kevin Murphy, cuesta 2,5 dólares más que una ensalada en repercusiones en la salud a largo plazo.
Un padre dominante se parece enormemente al candidato político que cree que el dinero gana elecciones, cuando en realidad si un candidato no gusta a los votantes no saldrá elegido ni con todo el diner...
Syllogism,
Panache.
Los pacientes de hospital que mueren por una causa que no fue la que los llevó allí: malos diagnósticos (resultado del descuido, el orgullo o los prejuicios), errores de medicación (basados, con demas...
Especialmente por parte de los moralistas altruistas que se han convencido de que su sensibilidad estética y la repugnancia instintiva deberían acabar con cualquier esfuerzo humano por salvar vidas.»
El único que sufrió una muerte violenta fue Nicolai Ceausescu. No debería pasarse por alto que su muerte fue en gran medida precipitada por la juventud de Rumanía, gran parte de la cual, de no ser por...
Declared preferences and revealed preferences.)
Your argument may be factually indisputable and logically airtight but if it doesn’t resonate for the recipient, you won’t get anywhere.
You may not like this idea; none of us wants to admit that we are pack animals. But in a complicated world, running with the herd can make sense. Who has time to think through every decision and all t...
When it comes to financial incentives, size matters. There are things that people will do for a lot of money that they’d never do for just a few dollars. The most devoted carnivore in the world might...
When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.
Were writing Freakonomics, we had grave doubts that anyone would actually read it—and we certainly never envisioned the need for this revised and expanded edition.
We arrive at the conservative figure of approximately 200,000 women in the regular army of vice.
W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Unfortunately, this fact is routinely ignored by those who engage in—take a deep breath—ultracrepidarianism, or the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge or compete...