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FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Expl
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The conversion of parenting from an
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y many journalists and found that t
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“How old are you, Steve?” he as
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irth and put the child up for adopt
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$10,000—is a mere $150. If you ea
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per year—which sounds like a lot
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greater moral plane in which man op
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there so much crime in modern socie
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off pig blood as their own. They mi
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subtle ways to inflate students’
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followed by the same incorrect answ
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The best way to get rid of cheating
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It is true that sports and cheating
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7-7 WRESTLER’S PREDICTED WIN PERC
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Once upon a time, Feldman dreamed b
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agels cost one dollar each, cream c
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“kuklux,” a slight mangling of
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y the Ku Klux Klan. Kennedy saw the
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more lynchings of blacks between 19
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Kennedy couldn’t wait for the fir
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perfectly good year-old cars, and t
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Armed with information, experts can
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Fantastic Granite Spacious State-of
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It would be naïve to suppose that
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Elderly players, meanwhile, are vic
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terribly important. The richer a ma
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But if you can question something t
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But if you were to have spent a lit
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Just as things were looking their b
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One of the society’s aims was to
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Net monthly profit accruing to lead
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writers. But in the neighborhood wh
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could do what he did. He was a tall
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drug dealers. In the past, the blac
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Still, the very topic managed to of
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When the crime rate began falling i
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commit a crime, the incentives were
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Let’s address the second one firs
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percent. Rudolph Giuliani, however,
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The most famous gun-control law is
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other words, the net effect of crac
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earliest years of legalized abortio
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Indeed, there are plenty of people
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What the link between abortion and
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creature’s life, a creature who i
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factor. Just as most people spend m
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Still, the question of how much par
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The answer will not be heartening t
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Correlation is nothing more than a
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