So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t.
Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.
Saber e fazer são duas coisas diferentes, principalmente quando a situação envolve prazer.
Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control,
Rising sea levels, for instance, aren’t being driven primarily by glaciers melting, Wood says, no matter how useful that image may be for environmental activists. The truth is far less sexy. It is dri...
People aren’t good or bad. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated—for good or ill—if only you find the right levers.
Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different.
One more story from the Bible, about King David. He slept with a married woman, Bathsheba, and got her pregnant. In order to cover up his transgression, David arranged for Bathsheba’s husband, a soldi...
Norma McCorvey ejerció en la criminalidad un impacto mucho mayor que la suma del control de armas, una economía fuerte y unas estrategias policiales innovadoras.
Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that is your objective, then persuasion is probably not what you were after in the first place.
Mullaney often took the subway to visit the client. His ride sometimes coincided with the end of the school day;
Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think—or to even spend much time thinking at all.
Mientras discutía acerca de su investigación sobre los nombres en un programa de radio, Roland G. Fryer Jr. aceptó una llamada de una mujer negra que se sentía disgustada por el nombre que acababan de...
Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.
Los datos no mienten: una prostituta callejera de Chicago tiene más probabilidades de practicar el sexo con un policía que de ser detenida por uno.
Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as a powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea.
Letting go of the conventional wisdoms that torment us. Letting go of the artificial limits that hold us back—and of the fear of admitting what we don’t know. Letting go of the habits of mind that tel...
It is understandable, therefore, that the movement to stop global warming has taken on the feel of a religion. The core belief is that humankind inherited a pristine Eden, has sinned greatly by pollut...
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.
In a medical study, it turned out that obstetricians in areas with declining birth rates are much more likely to perform cesarean-section deliveries than obstetricians in growing areas—suggesting that...