Narco Submarines and the Strange Economics of Cocaine Smuggling
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war on drugs
The Real Reason NYC Is Always Covered In Scaffolding
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in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights, urban economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Were you surprised that you were able to construct a model economy which generated fluctuations which closely resembled actual experience in the US?
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Missed question on budgie smugglers
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in economics of media and culture Tags: Australia
HITLER’S AMERICAN GAMBLE: PEARL HARBOR AND GERMANY’S MARCH TO WAR by Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman
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The dates December 5 through the 7th, 1941 mark the parameters of the most consequential week of the 20th century or perhaps any other time in history. It was during that week that the Soviet Union began a major counter offensive against the Nazis who were threatening Moscow, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and Hitler declared war on the United States. It was a perilous time for the British who had endured Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe’s blitz over London and other cities, fears of Japanese attacks against British held territories in Asia, and Churchill’s fear that the only thing that could save his island empire – the entrance of the United States into the war against Germany would not occur as Washington would now focus on Japan after Pearl Harbor. The event that saved the British was the Nazi dictator’s declaration of war against the United States, an…
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Tristan da Cunha: Building the Most Remote Settlement on Earth
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Tony is in a safe house with several of his men – The Sopranos
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Full Metal Jacket: How Monster Movies and an On-Set Feud Shaped Pvt. Pyle’s Madness
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BDS Movement Debate | Oxford Union
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, International law, law and economics, laws of war, property rights, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror, West Bank
How does Prescott react to the criticism that there is a lack of available supporting evidence of strong intertemporal labour substitution effects?
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Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
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