No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

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

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

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

In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

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.

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