Steven Levitt

“Freakanomics” by Steven D. Levitt fascinated me to how businesses play a part in every aspect of life, even drug dealing. Levitt compared a gang’s organizational chart to a McDonald’s version and it was quite similar, the gang even had a board of directors. “Freakanomics” showed how businesses play the market to their advantage, similar to how “Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis.” I am fascinated by how business can shape the world; I believe it is more than just…

Forty-five years ago, the Supreme Court made the decision to give women the right to choose to have an abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. Nevertheless, the topic of abortion is still a sensitive and controversial one. Although many have tried to tackle the issue, there is still much debate over the premises in said arguments. In his essay, “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis lays out a unique perspective against abortion. However, his argument is flawed because it does not consider…

jobs available to people now then there was before. Levitt believed that the rate of property crime increases once the increase in unemployment happens but since there is a stronger economy, there are fewer people unemployed (2004,171). In the 2000 's, the United States had a 2 percent decline in poverty and a 2 percent decline in property crime that illustrates the relationship that the economy affects the amount of crime that is happening (Levitt, 2004,171). Also, the housing market has a very…

where you do not know the customs, laws, traditions, or anything else how would you feel? Could you live in this place knowing that you are really never at home? According to center for immigration study web page a recent article by Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota writes, “ The nation 's immigrant (foreign-born) population, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, grew by 4.1 million from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015 — 1.7 million in just the last year.” Our…

I have faith that we need to take a hardline approach in dealing with the gang issues we have been experiencing. Many states have created laws to have stronger punishments to gang related crimes. Police departments have been joining forces with the federal law enforcement to create task forces to reduce these crimes. I believe that we need to keep these improvements and use a hardline approach. Law enforcement agencies have already made efforts to reduce the crime rate. They have made youth…

Gangs in the United States have evolved from malignant neighborhood groups into lucrative businesses and brutal vigilantes. Harvard University Professor Roland Fryer concludes the Crack Epidemic fundamentally transformed gangs because the booming drug trade incentivized larger and more sophisticated gangs (9). Similarly, the rapidly increasing opioid market in rural and suburban America explains the development of gangs in those areas (Whalen). Unfortunately, addiction and drug sales often bring…

genuinely kind to others permit a person to sense a better feeling about themselves because they know that they have done a good deed, which the good could come back to assist them in the future. Even so, according to the novel, Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, they address different situations about the people who do good for the world, which is known as altruism; however, most will only do good deeds for a prize or an incentive. Usually, a person will do good because they…

writing about what means the most to them. The first aspect of Faulkner’s writing standards - optimism in a dire living situation - is a gauge best to be used against Freakonomics, a book authored by economists Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Tackling a wide variety subjects, Levitt & Dubner proclaim that they apply their principles of observing economical trends to social trends, and try to hypothesize what these trends could reveal could reveal…

however, just think of success in terms of money. If they cannot buy the same things their neighbors can, they do not see themselves as successful compared to those neighbors. But, how does one become successful? According to Think Like a Freak, by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, there are ways to retrain your brain to make you more successful. They discuss how thinking outside the box, problem solving, and…

With the moral compass, Little Green and Californians will have an ability to recognize what is right or wrong and act accordingly in any situation (Levitt and Dubner 115). For example, Little Green is the group of children, so they learn about the eco-awareness earlier than teens and adults. When they become adults, they already have their moral compass ingrained within them. For example, when they…