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Also from Marginal Revolution, an interesting argument from Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: higher abortion rates have lead to lower crime rates.
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I'm gonna get the book.
I'm gonna get the book.
I also highly recommend
I also highly recommend "Freakonomics" for its examination of cheating and collusion among sumo wrestlers, and its examination of the economics of a crack gang... from hard financial data.
That's a really interesting
That's a really interesting book... I highly recommend it. Extra points to Levitt for demonstrating persuasively that higher abortion rates are strongly correlated- and causally related- to falling crime rates, and then backing carefully and thoroughly away from the eugenecist precipice.
I can't remember the last time I read a book of that kind and couldn't tell which way the author typically votes. (While it *is* a co-authored book, I get the strong vibe that Dubner is on board to make Levitt's existing prose breezier, not to argue anything of his own.)