Freakonomics Quotes

“I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.
There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas
One day your cruisin' in your seven,
Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies,
Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit catchin' up
Hit with the RICO, they repoed your vehicle
Everything was all good just a week ago
'Bout to start bitchin' ain't you?
Ready to start snitchin' ain't you?
I forgive you. Weak ass, hustlin' just ain't you
Aside from the fast cars
Honeys that shake they ass in bars
You know you wouldn't be involved
With the Underworld dealers, carriers of mac-millers
East coast bodiers, West coast cap-peelers
Little monkey niggas turned gorillas.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.”
― Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics.”
― Adam Pazandak

“The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn’t fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it’s all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“Morning robberies yield far more than afternoon robberies . . .' - When to Rob a Bank: A Rouge Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner”
― Steven D. Levitt, When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

“Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“We have evolved with a tendency to link causality to things we can touch or feel, not to some distant or difficult phenomenon. We believe especially in near-term causes: a snake bites your friend, he screams with pain, and he dies. The snakebite, you conclude, must have killed him. Most of the time, such a reckoning is correct. But when it comes to cause and effect, there is often a trap in such open-and-shut thinking. We smirk now when we think of ancient cultures that embraced faulty causes—the warriors who believed, for instance, that it was their raping of a virgin that brought them victory on the battlefield. But we too embrace faulty causes, usually at the urging of an expert proclaiming a truth in which he has a vested interest.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“Một cuộc nghiên cứu rộng về tâm lý và kinh tế đã cho thấy rằng người ta sẽ chi trả những khoản tiền khác nhau cho cùng một loại hàng tuỳ theo ai là người cung cấp hàng đó. Nhà kinh tế học Richard Thaler, trong bản nghiên cứu “Bia trên Bãi biển” năm 1985 của ông đã chỉ ra rằng một vị khách tắm biển sẽ trả 2,65 đô-la cho một cốc bia do khu nghỉ mát cung cấp nhưng chỉ trả 1,50 đô-la cho cùng loại bia đó nếu nó được bán ở một cửa hàng bình thường.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything