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Steven D. Levitt

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Educated At: St. Paul Academy And Summit School, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Professor, Podcaster, Economist, Author, Writer

Total quotes: 4

“If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Tagged: Economics, Morality

“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of 'identity.' It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”

— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Tagged: How To Think, Identity, Social Identity, identity is motive

“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Tagged: How To Think, Worthy, Meaning, Ambiguity

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Tagged: Sunlight, Cleansing, Truth

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