The Unabomber is the nickname given to American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski. He was a mathematics prodigy who embarked on a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In his manifesto, he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies. His bombing campaign lasted from 1978 to 1995, during which he killed three people and injured 23 others. Kaczynski was captured in 1996 and is serving a life sentence in prison.
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Author Steven Levitt, working with journalist Stephen Dubner, shows how economic theories can be used to analyze social issues. Each of the six essays...
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Freakonomics shows how incentives, information asymmetry, and other economic theories impact culture in ways beyond economics, including why people cheat and why names are important. However, at the end of the book, the author points out that statistical data does not always explain how people behave. He describes two children: the first grew up with an abusive father in a poor black community; the second grew up in a loving upper-class white community. Contrary to expectations based on the data, it was the first child who grew up to be very successful, becoming renowned Harvard economist Roland Fryer. The second child grew up to be Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber."
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