Can Economics Explain America’s Gun Violence?

In the 2022 BBC show Inside Man, Stanley Tucci’s character (Jefferson Grieff), an inmate on death row, says something dramatic about murder: “There are moments that make murderers of us all… all it takes is a good reason and a bad day.”

In Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence, University of Chicago Professor Jens Ludwig, goes further. He reduces that bad day to single ten-minute windows — and does away with much of the “good reason” part. 

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