Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levittis an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth29 May 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get any more and likely lose some that he already had,
He doesn't make advertisers comfortable, that's for sure. He is not necessarily a fan favorite these days and that certainly makes some advertisers very leery.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Don't trust, just verify.
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
There aren't many people who succeed in doing it, but at least it's possible.
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.