The Logic of Life by economist, Tim Harford, aims to help us understand social conundrums with numbers. Imagine my relief when I realized the only reason I don't have a mate right now was not because I am a loser, but because a shitload of eligible Black men are in prison and the rest are too cool to settle with anyone. There is also an excerpt about The Pill and how it revolutionized American Life. Women can control their pregnancies? Really? Now they can go to law school!
Of course, he isn't saying things that feminists and historians didn't already know, but somehow the hard and fast numbers adds that extra dose of validity.
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