Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

I still use this book to talk about why overturning Roe v Wade is an idiotic economic decision.

In 2024 this book is pretty out of date. He mentions several times how unlikely a child is to die by gun but guns are the #1 death of children in the US apart from disease since 2020 , even surpassing car accidents. Last year there were 346 school shootings alone, and unfortunately, by Jan 4 there had already been 4 school shootings this year (News Week, just checked). So, a lot of the statistics and theories are too far from the current situation to be applicable. He is clear that women, of all backgrounds and education, make the best choice of whether or not their able to responsibly have a baby rn. And he seems to support their right to choose. It's clear to me that he's not a eugenisist (a criticism of the book). However, he makes one fundamental flaw over and over: he seems to think he is capable of objective thought and impartiality. that's impossible. he dances real close to racist ideologies and crosses into it at some points. He also seem to spend a lot of time and energy on black culture unaware of his own privilege and internalized racism and how they handicap his reasoning on it. Not a bad read and was culturally signifigant but it also doesn't have application to current experience and has signifigant underlying flaws. 4/10