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Freakonomics:
One characteristic of information crime is that very few of them are detected. Unlike street crime, they do not leave behind a corpse or a broken window.
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066 |
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Freakonomics:
If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you’d be right.
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067 |
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Freakonomics:
Experts depend on the fact that you don’t have the information they do.
|
067 |
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Freakonomics:
Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken leverage: fear.
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067 |
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Freakonomics:
It would be naïve to suppose that people abuse information only when they are acting as experts or as agents of commerce.
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073 |
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Freakonomics:
The gulf between the information we publicly proclaim and the information we know to be true is often vast.
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082 |
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Freakonomics:
It may be sad but not surprising to learn that experts… can be self-interested to the point of deceit.
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087 |
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Freakonomics:
Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.
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087 |
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Freakonomics:
…the secret to finding the right data usually means finding the right person – which is more easily said than done.
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089 |
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Freakonomics:
…when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well.
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103 |
