Freakonomics

In 2005, two men named Steven and Stephen published the quintessential airport book. In 2022, two men named Mike and Peter started a whole podcast just to make fun of it.

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Sources:
• The 2003 NYT article (nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/probability-th…)
• Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? (americanscientist.org/article/freakonomics-wha…)
• A Review of Freakonomics (noapparentmotive.org/papers/DiNardo_on_Freakon…)
• Dismal Science (claremontreviewofbooks.com/dismal-science)
• Freak-Freakonomics (arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/papers/freak.pdf)
• The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment (jstor.org/stable/25098902)
• The Abortion–Crime Link: Evidence from England and Wales (jstor.org/stable/40071728)
• The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socioeconomic Outcomes of Children: Evidence from Romania (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/506336)
• Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime? (jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/1/1.short)
• On the Choice of Control Variables in the Crime Equation (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-008…)
• Steven Levitt on Abortion and Crime: Old Economics in New Bottles (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajes.1…)
• The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime (pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/Donohue…)
• The Great American Mystery Story: Why Did Crime Decline? (johnkroman.substack.com/p/the-great-american-m…)
• Is There an iCrime Wave? (urban.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publica…)
• The Great Crime Decline (newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-great-cr…)
• The Crime Drop in America (cambridge.org/core/books/crime-drop-in-america…)
• 10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline (themarshallproject.org/2014/11/24/10-not-entir…)
• What Caused the Crime Decline? (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=25…)
• Freaks and Geeks: How Freakonomics is ruining the dismal science. (newrepublic.com/article/62561/freaks-geeks)
• Interesting Questions in Freakonomics (aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.45.4.973)
• Incentives And The Economic Point Of View: The Case Of Popular Economics (rebe.rau.ro/RePEc/rau/rseijr/SU14/RSEI-SU14-A3…)
• Abortion and Crime in Australia (andrewleigh.org/pdf/Abortion&Crime(AQ).pdf)

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