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The free market answer to Freakonomics! Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? And did legalized abortion really cause a drop in crime, as some experts claim? Not even close, says economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr. In his new book, Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, Lott takes on the profound distrust of the market that the bestselling book Freakonomics has helped to popularize. Using specific, real-world examples, Lott shows how free markets liberate the best, most creative, and most generous aspects of our society—while efforts to constrain economic liberty, no matter how well intentioned, invariably lead to increased poverty and injustice. Entertaining, persuasive, and based on dozens of economic studies spanning decades, Freedomnomics not only shows how free markets really work—but also proves that, when it comes to promoting prosperity and economic justice, nothing works better. As a way of introducing the book, we would like to e-mail you a FREE chapter. |
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