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by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen
J. Dubner
In a word (or two or three):i took like no math classes in college,
so maybe i'll learn a thing or two
From Mr. Hipster:
The pun title and the whole sliced apple
with the orange inside on the cover didn't exactly inspire confidence.
Was this going to be a serious economist dumbing down serious theories
for Midwestern housewives? Was this going to be a popular culturist
espousing opinions readily available on every blog known to man? It
turns out that it's actually a bit of both; it's an economics lesson
for college film majors like myself who were too busy chugging and
watching Birth of a Nation twelve times to study those scary-looking
curves and graphs that our management and economics friends were busy
busting their asses on (when they weren't chugging). It's like an
economics book for populist conspiracy theorists. The weird thing
is that this is the third book in a row I've read that talks about
the crack epidemic of the 1980s. I guess living in the friendly confines
of the Westside of Los Angeles at that time, it didn't somehow register
exactly how out of hand crime had gotten during that time, but it's
amazing that one little drug caused such a spike in violence and criminal
behavior in such a short time. This book espouses theories about crime's
subsequent dramatic drop-off in ways that I can't imagine anybody
ever approached before. It's all about legalized abortion. Read it
and you'll see. The other theories put forth in the book are equally
off-the-wall and endlessly provocative. It's amazing that the man
actually makes numbers research fun. My only wish was that the thing
was longer. These dudes just have to start a blog.
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