More Freedom, Less Freakonomics by John Lott
"Freedomnomics is John Lott's free market retort to the wildly popular book, Freakonomics -- that pastiche of thin analysis that skims over topics as diverse as sumo wrestling, real estate rip-offs, used car prices, and children's names.
In particular, Lott disputes the most explosive claim in Levitt and Dubner's work -- that Roe v. Wade was a major factor in the stunning drop in crime in the 1990s. That huge assertion, based on four pages of analysis that included the negative impact of Communist Romania's no-abortion policy, could easily have been labeled 'fewer blacks, less crime.'
Lott argues, by contrast, that the Supreme Court's legislative fiat in 1973 actually increased crime by boosting out-of-wedlock births and single-parent households. These crime-correlated statistics exploded in the 1970s and '80s as social sanctions against extra-marital sex disappeared and as the legal but odious option of abortion was rejected by millions of now-pregnant unmarried women. "
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