Comments on: The Economics of Crime

By: admin

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:07:48 +0000

First off, it’s “Dan” not “Don”.

John, I’m sure you can appreciate that there are two audiences for the salient messages in Freakonomics. One, that appreciates the examples of economic thought (i.e. we’re the product of our motivations) and the second that might need specific insight from some of the examples.

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:59:33 +0000

Don , I am impressed you read Freakonomics. What I fear you missed is the whole point of all the examples in the book point to one simple fact “Change a persons motivation and you will change the person” Now you my change the person for better or for worse but you will change the person or on a larger scale the people.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:53:03 +0000

The single most devastating act affecting the Black Community in the city of Trenton was/is Mayor Palmer desgnating Trenton a sanctuary city.
Undocumented workers mainly occupy jobs on the lower economic scale of the economy.Undocumented do not do jobs no one else would do,they do jobs ordinarily held by teenagers, high school graduates,those re-entering the work force etc….
In essence Mayor Palmer sacrificed his traditionalconstinuncy in the name of politcal correctness and the democratic party.I doubt if it was purposeful.The policy of “sanctuary city” emerged out of ignorance of basic economics.

By: Matt Faircloth

Matt Faircloth — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:49:10 +0000

Hey Dan,
Great article. Break the paradigm that the potential gang member has on the lifestyle he’ll lead. In my humble opinion there should be a presentation given to middle school trenton students (by high school the target audience has either made up their mind about their path or has dropped out already unfortunately…) showing the life earning potential of a college grad versus a gang member. We need to break the perception of the life they think they are going to lead.

And also I must say great work on the Blog!