The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. Pearson K., The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
    (Cambridge University Press, London, 1914).

  2. Patel D.M. et al., Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary
    (National Academies Press, 2012).

  3. Statistics from: Grinshteyn E. and Hemenway D., ‘Violent Death
    Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD
    Countries, 2010’, The American Journal of Medicine, 2016;
    Koerth-Baker M., ‘Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand
    Gun Violence’, Five Thirty Eight, 3 October 2017.

  4. Background from: Thompson B., ‘The Science of Violence’,
    Washington Post, 29 March 1998; Wilkinson F., ‘Gunning for
    Guns’, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1993.

  5. Cillizza C., ‘President Obama’s amazingly emotional speech on
    gun control’, Washington Post, 5 January 2016.

  6. Borger J., ‘The Guardian profile: Ralph Nader’, The Guardian,
    22 October 2004.

  7. Background from: Jensen C., ‘50 Years Ago, “Unsafe at Any
    Speed” Shook the Auto World’, New York Times, 26 November
    2015.

  8. Kelly K., ‘Car Safety Initially Considered “Undesirable” by
    Manufacturers, the Government and Consumers’, Huffington
    Post, 4 December 2012.

  9. Frankel T.C., ‘Their 1996 clash shaped the gun debate for
    years. Now they want to reshape it’, Washington Post, 30
    December 2015.

  10. Kates D.B. et al., ‘Public Health Pot Shots’, Reason, April 1997.

  11. Turvill J.L. et al., ‘Change in occurrence of paracetamol
    overdose in UK after introduction of blister packs’, The Lancet,
    2000; Hawton K. et al., ‘Long term effect of reduced pack sizes of
    paracetamol on poisoning deaths and liver transplant activity in

Free download pdf