Corruption and Parking Tickets
20 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of corruption
Feel safe to walk alone at night by gender in the OECD countries
18 Jan 2018 1 Comment
Australian and New Zealand women seem to think they live in a rather crime ridden country. Japanese women are as nervous as American women despite vast differences in crime rates and muggings.

Data extracted on 17 Jan 2018 07:18 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
I hate restorative justice. The victim owes the offender nothing, much less enabling a trauma bond to get them a lighter sentence
17 Jan 2018 Leave a comment

How to Survive a Dog Attack
15 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: dogs
Ok for @amnestyOz to imply #Manusisland is a S***hole?
15 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia, politics - USA
You cannot criticise Trump and the Pacific solution to boat people coming to Australia at the same time? Both Trump and Amnesty International agree that certain developing countries are not very nice places to go to and the people there are rather rough and intolerant of outsiders.

Source: THIS IS BREAKING PEOPLE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AT AUSTRALIA’S ASYLUM SEEKER PROCESSING CENTRE ON MANUS ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA by Amnesty International Australia at https://www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Amnesty_International_Manus_Island_report-1.pdf
Does Japan deliver on simple laws and boring courts
09 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, law and economics

Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines
09 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in energy economics, law and economics

Source: Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines: The Case of Japan by J. Mark Ramseyer (2012).
The top 5 world doping champions?
07 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, sports economics

Sociologists are unhappy when women are happy
06 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, poverty and inequality Tags: gender gap, marriage and divorce, sociology
The economic incentives for criminal behaviour
31 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment
More reasons why sociology is unsafe for campuses
31 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of natural disasters, law and economics
David Friedman Discusses Market Failure and Solutions
31 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, law and economics Tags: economics of property rights, new institutional economics
David Friedman on Hayek and Rothbard
27 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, Austrian economics, David Friedman, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics Tags: economics of anarchy
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