More Sex Is Safer Sex Quotes

“But when something is easy to imagine, it’s often because you’ve failed to imagine it in sufficient detail.”
― Steven E. Landsburg, More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

“If you support protectionism because you think it’s good for you, you’ve probably just got your economics wrong. But if you support protectionism because you think it’s good for your fellow Americans, at the expense of foreigners, then it seems to me you’ve got your morals wrong too.”
― Steven E. Landsburg, More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

“If, like me, you consider the Drug War a moral outrage, you’ll be distressed to learn that the police are maximizing drug convictions. Stopping motorists because you don’t like their race is reprehensible, but at least it doesn’t retard economic activity. If the police are going to harass a dozen motorists a day, it doesn’t much matter whether they target blacks, whites, or a representative sample; twelve harassed motorists are twelve harassed motorists. But it does matter whether they target drug dealers, because that discourages the drug trade and raises the price of drugs. That strikes me as bad—and in fact, worse than racism.”
― Steven E. Landsburg, More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics