People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don’t, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity’s steady payo...
La información es un faro, un garrote, una rama de olivo, en total, un elemento de disuasión, dependiendo de quién la maneje y cómo.
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved.Knowing what to measure, and how...
HOW IS A STREET PROSTITUTE LIKE A DEPARTMENT-STORE SANTA?
For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
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Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.
Schilt y Wiswall descubrieron que las mujeres que se transforman en hombres ganan algo más de dinero después del cambio de sexo, mientras que los hombres que se transforman en mujeres ganan, por térmi...
Por razones que Auvert y otros científicos no comprenden del todo, se descubrió que la circuncisión reduce el riesgo de transmisión del VIH hasta en un 60 por ciento en los hombres heterosexuales.
Or, as W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Most giving is, as economists call it, impure altruism or warm-glow altruism. You give not only because you want to help but because it makes you look good, or feel good, or perhaps feel less bad. Con...
It’s much better to ask small questions than big ones.
It isn't only that we know less than we pretend about the outside world; we don't even know ourselves all that well.
Internet, a pesar de su poder, no ha conseguido dar muerte a la bestia de la asimetría informativa.
If there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives.
Have fun, think small, don’t fear the obvious.
Engañar es un acto económico primitivo: obtener más a cambio de menos.
«La prueba de todo conocimiento es el experimento —dijo—. El experimento es el único juez de la verdad científica». La