Retrieved from: my library
006073132x, 2005
Suggested by: me, when I cataloged it; it looked, well, readable
My Ratings: 9 Merit, 9 Interest, 10 Fun
This book has gotten a lot of press in the last couple of weeks. It's kind of fun to be reading it while everyone else is talking about it. But I must say, "everything" is a relative term. Levitt explains a lot, but not everything.
Yeah. "Economist" kind of brings up a mental picture of "Incredibly Boring to Read." But it's NOT boring. It's actually easy to read, very conversational. Even if you don't agree with all the conclusions they reach in their number-crunching, the path they take to get there will stretch your brain and remind you to THINK ABOUT what you hear and read.
Of course, the big play being made about the book is Levitt's connection between Roe v. Wade and the precipitous drop in crime in the laste 80s and early 90s. He attributes access to abortion to their being fewer teenage hoodlums around acting out. Some of his other correlations are just as amazing though. My favorite mindbender is the comparison of crack distribution networks to the corporoate franchise philosophy of McDonalds (et al.). WOW!
Worth spending time reading.
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