Freakonomics Rev Ed
Economics is above all a science of measurement.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
an unmarried, low-income, undereducated teenage mother from a black neighborhood who has a distinctively black name herself.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Baby Mozart
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
fear is a potent short-term play.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. homicides involve a gun,
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
It comprises an extraordinarily powerful and flexible set of tools that can reliably assess a thicket of information to determine the effect of any one factor, or even the whole effect. That’s what “the economy” is, after all: a thicket of information about jobs and real estate and banking and investment.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
In the early 1990s, just as the first cohort of children born after Roe v. Wade was hitting its late teen years—
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
This is why there was a drop in crime because the kids that weren't born dokie to the legalization of abortions
“Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control,”
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work—whereas economics represents how it actually does work.