Different individuals may be capable of using the economic advantage accrued to them because of their superior knowledge with greater alacrity than others. Another limit is the multicausal nature of behavior and shifts in the culture. The drop in crime can be attributed to so many factors, to draw an easy correlation between the abortion rate and a drop in crime is almost impossible, given that it was accompanied by an increase in material wealth during this period that spread to poorer segments of society, an increase...

Human beings do not live in the laboratory, and the examples cited by Leavitt and Dubner tend to reduce most of human behavior to a singular causal framework. Regardless, the book is provoking and challenging in its analysis, although it is no more a complete explanation for various social phenomena than the schema of classical economics and classical social theory the authors question in their analysis.
Works Cited

Dubner, Stephen & Steven Levitt. Freakonomics. New York: William Morrow, 2006.