Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
How free-market economies really work(and why they work so well)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? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local  car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense?In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories  Don't,economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other  common economic questions, bravely confronting the profound distrust of the  market that the bestselling book Freakonomics has helped to popularize.  Using clear and hard-hitting 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 matterhow well-intentioned, invariably lead to increased poverty and injustice.  Extendingits rigorous economic analysis even further to our political and criminal  justicesystems, Freedomnomics reveals:● How the free market creates incentives for people to behave  honestly● How political campaign restrictions keep incumbents in power● Why legalized abortion leads to family breakdown, which creates  more crime● Why affirmative action in police departments leads to higher crime  rates● How women's suffrage led to a massive increase in the size of  government·    Why women become more conservative when they get married and moreliberal when they get divorced● How secret ballots reduce voter participation● Why state-owned companies and government agencies are much more  likely to engage in unfair predation than are private firms● Why the controversial assertions made in the trendy book  Freakonomics are almost entirely wrongEntertaining, persuasive, and based on dozens of economic studies spanning  decades, Freedomnomics not only shows how free markets really work--but  proves that, when it comes to promoting prosperity and economic justice,  nothing works better.