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This 3 page paper relies on the chapter in the book Freakonomics by authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner to illuminate the economics of selling crack cocaine in inner city Chicago. No additional sources are listed.
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Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or a Porsche.
In the chapter "Why Drug Dealers Live With Their Moms" authors Levitt and Dubner (2009) contend that this perception is artificially created via a crafty collaboration between so-called experts
and a media that is eager to snap up any high impact story. The problem is that sometimes experts just make up what they think the public and the
media want to hear. In this chapter of "Freakonomics" Levitt and Dubner (2009) show us the hard economic facts of being a drug dealer or, more specifically, of dealing
crack cocaine in inner city Chicago. Levitt and Dubner (2009) contend that the so-called experts can sometimes "be
self-interested to the point of deceit. But they cannot deceive on their own. Journalists need experts as much as experts need journalists" (p. 99). Another problem that emerges
in this relationship is that the real expert, the expert that is interested only in getting at the truth and not necessarily making a name for themselves, doesnt always have
the ear of journalists. This combination of factors is responsible for the publics current misperception of drug dealers. These authors contend
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