Un reciente estudio académico descubrió que un desastre recibe un máximo del 18 por ciento de ayuda solidaria por cada artículo de 700 palabras en los periódicos, y un máximo del 13 por ciento por cad...
Un estudio que abarca cincuenta años de los Nobel de Química y Física demuestra que los ganadores vivieron más tiempo que los que solo fueron candidatos.
Un estudio descubrió que más del 25% de los homicidios cometidos en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1988 estaban relacionados con el crack.
Un choque de automóvil es un asunto violento, y pueden sucederle muchas cosas terribles a una masa de carne y hueso que se desplace a gran velocidad dentro de un objeto metálico y pesado que se para d...
To answer this question with some kind of scientific certainty, what you’d really like to do is conduct an experiment. Pretend you could randomly select a group of states and command each of them to r...
To Chen’s surprise, Felix and the others responded rationally. When the price of a given food rose, the monkeys bought less of it, and when the price fell, they bought more. The most basic law of econ...
These budding drug lords bumped up against an immutable law of labor: when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well. This is one of four meaningful f...
There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral.
The probability that an average American will die in a given year from a terrorist attack is roughly 1 in 5 million; he is 575 times more likely to commit suicide.
The next time you’re in a real jam, facing an important question that you just can’t answer, go ahead and make up something—and everyone will believe you, because you’re the guy who all those other ti...
The next time you encounter such a barrier, imposed by people who lack your imagination and drive and creativity, think hard about ignoring it. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much hard...
The modern world demands that we all think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally; that we think from a different angle, with a different set of muscles, with a different set of exp...
The message is unequivocal: failure may be an option but quitting is not.
The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones...
The economic approach is both broader and simpler than that. It relies on data, rather than hunch or ideology, to understand how the world works, to learn how incentives succeed (or fail), how resourc...
Some of the most loyal customers any company has are the ones who had a big problem but got treated incredibly well as it was being resolved.
So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.
Si se suman, por ejemplo, todos los hombres y mujeres del planeta, se comprobará que, por término medio, el humano adulto medio tiene una mama y un testículo…
Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud.