Freakonomics Summary

This summer we were assigned to read the book Freakonomics written by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. This book was very interesting to read. Reading the book each chapter asked a question and then once you read the book, it will answer the question. Stephen Levitt begins the introduction by discussing the rise in crime in the early 1990s. Violent crime was relentless, and experts predicted it was only going to get worse. The news and media always portrayed each criminal as a heartless thug and insinuated that there was a whole generation of killers behind him. President Clinton said that something had to be done about the juvenile problem or America would be plunged into chaos.
In the first chapter his main message is about incentives. Incentives are the basic building blocks of economics: per economists, nearly every decision can be explained through incentives. Because of incentives, people are sometimes driven to cheat. Because
Within a decade of its beginning, the Klan was extinguished, but restarted again by the 1920s, when it began targeting not only blacks, but also Catholics, Jews, communists, immigrants, and other minority groups. While World War II caused the Klan to lie low for a while, it revitalized strongly after the war, with its headquarters in the city of Atlanta. There, Stetson Kennedy, a writer who was dedicated to ending bigotry, decided to go undercover and join the Klan in order to reveal its coveted secrets that might help lead to its destruction. He wormed his way into their ranks, learning all their secret customs, and eventually was invited to join the Klavaliers, who were the Klan's secret