Sometimes we come across a book which introduces new ways to analyze things.It encourages you to think beyond the obvious and not to go with the crowd."The Tipping Point" is a book of that genre.The book discusses about how new trends come in society, how small changes causes a big revolutionary change to occur,
how new fashions become and spreads like "social epidemic".Certain examples have been shown by the author in forms of case studies to come to conclusions.One such example I would like to share with my readers.The decrease in the crime rate in the city of New York is a question of great debate.Till late eighties and early nineties the crime rate was quite high in the city of New York.But starting from early nineties crime rate plunged in a great way.People show different reasons behind this.Some people says that better policing did the miracle.Other says aging of population decreased the number of wrongdoers.Economists say improvement in the economy provided alternative jobs for the people who could have been engaged in criminal activities.But author of this book says that the person who was responsible for ebbing of crime rate was the woman who fought for Legality of Abortion two decades ago.Because of that woman abortion was legalized in the the states.Children who born despite their parent's wish are most likely to grow in an environment which will not enable them to become good human being.As a matter of fact a majority of them resorts to criminal activities when they grow up.So the author argues that as abortion was legalized so a majority of potential criminals were not even born.That caused a decrease in the number of criminals after two
decade and hence crime rate decreased.You may not buy this argument of the author but surely you can not deny his power of imagination and ability to think out of the box.
how new fashions become and spreads like "social epidemic".Certain examples have been shown by the author in forms of case studies to come to conclusions.One such example I would like to share with my readers.The decrease in the crime rate in the city of New York is a question of great debate.Till late eighties and early nineties the crime rate was quite high in the city of New York.But starting from early nineties crime rate plunged in a great way.People show different reasons behind this.Some people says that better policing did the miracle.Other says aging of population decreased the number of wrongdoers.Economists say improvement in the economy provided alternative jobs for the people who could have been engaged in criminal activities.But author of this book says that the person who was responsible for ebbing of crime rate was the woman who fought for Legality of Abortion two decades ago.Because of that woman abortion was legalized in the the states.Children who born despite their parent's wish are most likely to grow in an environment which will not enable them to become good human being.As a matter of fact a majority of them resorts to criminal activities when they grow up.So the author argues that as abortion was legalized so a majority of potential criminals were not even born.That caused a decrease in the number of criminals after two
decade and hence crime rate decreased.You may not buy this argument of the author but surely you can not deny his power of imagination and ability to think out of the box.
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Good Ananlysis! but who has written The Book & from which publisher?
Malcolm Gladwell er lekha..dekhi boita apnake mail kora jai kina...
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