[techweenie]

Interesting. Generally, I find traditional economics to be overly simplistic and insular, in that it seems to be based upon an attempt to codify multi-dimensional situations into 2- and 3-dimensional thinking.

Anything that involves human behavior is just not that simple.

For instance, the notion that abortion affects the incidences of criminal behavior is potentially true, but far from the whole picture. Overall reproductive rates due to any number of factors produce the same result, since the vast majority of crimes are committed by males under 25. So war, famine, a soft economy... all have impacts on the percentage of young males in the population which then results in shifts in crime rates.