The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

As people do a task, they improve at it.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy.

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

How could he uphold the law when that law upheld injustice?

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.