The Top Five Feminist Myths of All Time
30 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: feminist myths, gender wage gap
Have We Lost the War on Drugs? – Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy – WSJ 2013
29 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gary Becker, health economics, law and economics, liberalism
One moderate alternative to the war on drugs is to follow Portugal’s lead and decriminalize all drug use while maintaining the illegality of drug trafficking. Decriminalizing drugs implies that persons cannot be criminally punished when they are found to be in possession of small quantities of drugs that could be used for their own consumption.
Decriminalization would reduce the bloated U.S. prison population since drug users could no longer be sent to jail.
Decriminalization would make it easier for drug addicts to openly seek help from clinics and self-help groups, and it would make companies more likely to develop products and methods that address addiction…
A study published in 2010 in the British Journal of Criminology found that in Portugal since decriminalization, imprisonment on drug-related charges has gone down; drug use among young persons appears to have increased only modestly, if at all; visits to clinics that help with drug addictions and diseases from drug use have increased; and opiate-related deaths have fallen.
Why Sir Richard Attenborough slept through a hurricane
29 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, war and peace Tags: Richard Attenborough
Grumpy old hippies on the iPhone generation
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: grumpy old hippies, grumpy old man, grumpy old women, The Great Enrichment
HT: Sean Fitzpatrick
The meddlesome preferences of the Green Left
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Green Left, Leftover Left, meddlesome preferences
The dreaded morning people
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: morning people, night owls
B.S. meter – Respectful Insolence
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party compared
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, rentseeking Tags: corporate welfare, Occupy Wall Street, rent seeking, tea party, top 1%
Milton Friedman on why people object to the free market
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Milton Friedman Tags: capitalism and freedom, Milton Friedman
Richard A. Posner: Wire Trap | New Republic
27 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Richard Poser, terrorism
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