6/27/2023 0 Comments Freakonomics by steven dThey find that the reason crime reduced so drastically was because of the legalization of abortion through Roe v. Using these ideas, they analyze in Chapter 4, the sudden drop in crime from the late 90’s against earlier predictions that crime rates would soar.įirst, the authors tear apart several opinions given for the sharp decline in crime using a realistic and sensible approach that relies on facts and statistics. These fundamental ‘truths’ are according to the current life we live in, a cornerstone of Incentives, conservative wisdom is at times wrong, staged effects have distant causes, professionals use their advantage in information to serve their own agenda, and finally, Knowing what to gauge and how to measure it makes the world less complex. Though the article does not have a baseline plot, the authors lay down several ‘truths’ which they use to test conventional wisdom. Dubner, have gone out of their way to challenge conventional wisdom using simple analysis in what they term as the ‘economic’ side to reality. The authors of Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything, Steven.
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