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Steven David "Steve" Levitt is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. With journalist Stephen J. Dubner, he co-authored the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels SuperFreakonomics , Think Like a Freak , and When to Rob a Bank . In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.

✵ 29. May 1967
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Think Like a Freak
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Famous Steven D. Levitt Quotes

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

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“The conventional wisdom is often wrong.”

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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

Steven D. Levitt book Think Like a Freak

Source: Think Like a Freak

“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.”

Steven D. Levitt

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“I don’t expect perfection, I expect excellence.” I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.”

Steven D. Levitt

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

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