Super Freakanomics

I recently bought the highly touted sequel to Freakanomics, Super Freakanomics. For you who do not know about either, "Freak" was developed and written by an economist and investigative journalist. They look at several different phenomenon and explain causation with factors that most people would not really think about. In the first book they look at what successfully helped lower crime rates in the 80's and 90's. Most people claim better laws, prevention programs, and other institutional structures. But the authors, looked at the legalization of abortion. Citing mountains of empirical data, they illustrated a link between the demographics of women who usually get abortions and the demographics of active criminals. They found that both shared lower qualities of living, less educated, single or come from broken families to name a few factors. They explain that a major causation for drop in crime rates was due that less potential criminals were being born.
In the new book, they will apply their empirical research into global warming and other current topics. One excerpt that I enjoy was the empirical relationship that one is more likely to be killed drunk walking than drunk driving. While they do not condone drunk driving as it usually impacts everyone else besides the drunk, a drunk is more likely to die trying to walk home.
The first book is a great read and I would recommend to anyone no matter their background and I look forwarding to finishing the second book.