The U.S. war on drugs has been relatively ineffective precisely because it focuses on sellers and not buyers. While drug buyers obviously outnumber
The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.
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 future is far less knowable than you think.
The message is unequivocal: failure may be an option but quitting is not.
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 swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
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...
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...
Tras los recientes acontecimientos, uno se pregunta si la macroeconomía es la especialidad de algún economista.
Trying to keep a public men’s room clean? Sure, go ahead and put up signs urging people to pee neatly—or, better, paint a housefly on the urinal and watch the male instinct for target practice take ov...
Un blog también puede ser un buen lugar para desahogarse, perorar (y, ocasionalmente, despotricar) respecto a asuntos de un carácter más personal.
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...
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.
What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
When you’re that engaged, you’ll run circles around other people even if they are more naturally talented.
Yes, it may be money they’re after—but just as often they are motivated by wanting to be liked, or not be hated; by wanting to stand out in a crowd, or perhaps not stand out.
Contar historias que se basan en datos acumulados y no en anécdotas personales, anomalías llamativas, opiniones personales, estallidos emocionales o tendencias morales.
Conventional wisdom dies hard.
Cuando el gobierno ofrece a una mujer la oportunidad de tomar su propia decisión acerca del aborto, ella suele preguntarse seriamente si se encuentra en posición de criar a un hijo en condiciones. Si...
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