Can Trump be blocked from running? Two legal scholars debate the 14th Am…
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
El Salvador and the elasticity of supply
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in economics of crime, industrial organisation, law and economics
Many of you have written in and asked what I think of president Bukele throwing all those gang members (and possibly others) in jail without much due process. I do hope to learn more about this, including possibly with a trip to El Salvador later this year. In the meantime, I say let’s put aside […]
El Salvador and the elasticity of supply
Handy guide
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Law-Abiding Immigrants
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in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of immigration, law and order
The subtitle is The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1850–2020, and the authors are Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres. Here is the to-the-point abstract: Combining full-count Census data with Census/ACS samples, the researchers provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants […]
Law-Abiding Immigrants
Just watched a documentary on Bernie Madoff and his gullible investors
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in economic history, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics Tags: active investing

Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
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in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
Bernie Madoff: The Greatest Con in History
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in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
How Trump’s Four Criminal Trials Could Influence His 2024 Campaign | @WSJ
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Dogs get bigger as law and order gets worse as you move east
09 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: dogs

India has a criminal infested parliament
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in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: India

El Salvador super prison takes 2,000 more suspects in gang crackdown
03 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics
How the West Destroyed Slavery Around the World | Thomas Sowell
12 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: age of empires, economics of slavery


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