Steven Levitt on his book Freakonomics - full half-show

[clydrobe]

14:20 LOL publiced the bush

[Laparanoicafierita]

is it my imagination or all the videos pro-life just banned commentaries?

[danielmatern]

Levitt is not rallying for abortion. This is about unintended consequences. Similar to using the prisoner's dilemma to explain why cigarette companies' profits soared after the government banned their advertising on television. People consumed cigarettes at the same rate, and all the money spent on advertising became pure-profit.

Read Levitt's article, "Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not" in the Journal of Economics Perspective.

[Cassius10761]

They are not cheerleading abortion. They are not taking sides. They are not saying abortion is right or wrong. They are looking at data and saying that this piece of data supports this conclusion. That's all.

Clearly you have missed the entire point of his research.

[rictorn]

there are ways and means to get a better society abortion in a certain class is 1, genocide of a % of that class is another, but as we are not hitler lets look at the ways that don't look like genicide a fair distribution of wealth dose the same trick but it dose it 1 much much better and 2 without advocating obortion in the working class, and freedom for the rich to do what they like, its inicuitus

[rictorn]

it may be an idea to help the kids born to pooor ppl rather than rejoice in lower crime rates brought on by more abortions, its almost genicidal, although i am not aggainst obortion i am against chjeerleading for it

[lokidj01]

@rictorn They aren't cheer leading for it, they are just pointing out facts.