When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Steven D. Levitt
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  2. Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. 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.

  3. For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

  4. 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.

  5. There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

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