The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.