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.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

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

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.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.