Ronald Coase Part 1: Reconciling Theory with Reality
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase
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
11 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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
06 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics Tags: active investing
Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
27 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
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Benefit-cost analysis without the benefits or the analysis: How not to write Merger Guidelines
20 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics
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
16 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
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
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
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
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