Freedomnomics is everything you wanted to know about the world but didn't know economics could tell you. Economist and bestselling author Lott shows the logic of free market economics through clear and hard-hitting examples.

John Richard Lott Jr. is an American economist and political commentator. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is currently a Fox News opinion contributor. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.