[b]Steven D. Levitt
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.[/b]
I think that, among others, Don Trump would agree.
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent–all depending on who wields it and how.
I think that, among others, Bob Mueller would agree.
Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.
Well, not here of course.
As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Drunk or sober.
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
Which doesn’t mean that, in fact, it really can’t be done.
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.
Not really a problem for some of us.