Testing bullet proof glass in 1932
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice
Thomas Sowell – Preferential Policies (Fascinating 1990 Interview)
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Next to no drug users in federal prisons!
20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war on drugs

Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: war on drugs
Progressive muslim Met a Former Muslim Extremist. It Scared him How Much His Story Sounded Like his own.
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war against terror
Why the #MeToo Moment Is Especially Distressing for Muslim Women (progressive Muslim discovers there is ‘no superior virtue of the oppressed’ even in a conservative religion full of taboos)
17 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Pirates & the Theory of the Firm – Intro to Political Economy, Lecture17 Mike Munger
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: asymmetric information, moral hazard, transaction costs
What makes countries rich or poor?
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape
Here’s What Happened When Prisoners Started Vaping (HBO) @EricCrampton @cjsnowden @K_Niemietz
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, entrepreneurship, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of smoking
The Economics of Pirates, Gypsies and Ordeals: Interview with Peter T. Leeson
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, market efficiency Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, market failure, pirates
High ability robbers (e.g. remembers to have a gun, mask, getaway car) stay long in banks & are deterred by longer sentences @sst_nz
07 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence



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