April 28, 2006
A Reputation Under the Gun
Two rival economists have dueled in scholarly journals and in the public eye. Now their fight may end up in court
In the late 1990s, the economist John R. Lott Jr. brought forward a controversial proposition spelled out in the title of his book, More Guns, Less Crime. Using a huge cache of crime data, he argued that states that passed new laws permitting citizens to carry concealed weapons saw significant declines in robbery, rape, and homicide, compared with states that did not
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