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At the same time, politicians were growing increasingly softer on crime—“for fear of sounding racist,” as the economist Gary Becker has written, “since African-Americans and Hispanics commit a disproportionate share of felonies.”
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
criminology
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But his misdeeds were not the reason he conquered his industry: he won because he was faster in apprehension and more deadly in execution than any of his contemporaries.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
Terrorism is effective because it imposes costs on everyone, not just its direct victims. The most substantial of these indirect costs is fear of a future attack, even though such fear is grossly misplaced. The probability that an average American will die in a given year from a terrorist attack is roughly 1 in 5 million; he is 575 times more
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