❤️ loved this book because...
I am very much typically in the "economics is not a real science" camp, but I do believe that it can still show us useful things - after all, money and goods are motivators by which people live and die, especially under capitalism. This book discusses a bunch of broad trends and how they indirectly affect other inputs, without falling prey to the reactionary free market idolatry that would often poison such a narrative. It's also written in a wonderfully accessible manner, and its discussion of how the legalization of abortion positively influenced crime rates was outright fascinating. (Of course, given relatively recent events, things may not augur well for that trend.)
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