Are You Agnostic About Legalized Abortion?

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A number of years have passedare there any of them that you want to say you've changed your mind on? You don't think they're true any more, just the so called record. Do you think they'veie shae, theyve stood to testin time? Or do you want to be agnostic about it? I'd love to talk about the new evidence on legalized abortion, i e it's not but that's not to answer this question. So what's funny, is it, the things that i regret now that are wrong are are the things that were like, well, research journalism as opposed to actual academic research.

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."