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 […]
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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
Just watched a documentary on Bernie Madoff and his gullible investors
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Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
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Benefit-cost analysis without the benefits or the analysis: How not to write Merger Guidelines
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NEW PAPER ON SSRN: The wealth-creating engine of capitalism is the movement of assets to higher-valued uses. Our biggest and most valuable assets, and those with the greatest wealth-creating potential are corporations. Antitrust law and practice work to facilitate this movement, while deterring the types of mergers which substantially lessen competition. Previous iterations of the DOJ/FTC Merger…
Benefit-cost analysis without the benefits or the analysis: How not to write Merger Guidelines
Bernie Madoff: The Greatest Con in History
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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
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in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: dogs

India has a criminal infested parliament
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El Salvador super prison takes 2,000 more suspects in gang crackdown
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How the West Destroyed Slavery Around the World | Thomas Sowell
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: age of empires, economics of slavery
How Congress Gets Rich from Insider Trading
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in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, insider trading
Bob Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business Cycles 2/5/2007
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in business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy

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