…minimum – high minimum wages often approach median level in other economies). Oakland won’t educate its way out of poverty and crime. Catch 22: political scientist Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, from neighboring…

…& Burling after their Justice Dept. stints. For one thing, most top white collar crime defense attorneys began their careers as federal prosecutors and made their names in high-profile cases….

…to mention women’s unpaid labor or community activism or crime or family breakdown. All of these important things are not measured. And the attempt to correct it, natural capital, if…

…data is from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, but it’s laid out in a conveniently sortable table with a linked Google spreadsheet at this Guardian page. Steve…

Krugman’s leeches analogy today spurs me to comment: If the police department in your town is doing a bad job and the crime rate is high, the obvious solution is…

…increase the potential for, and volume of, crime. At the same time, banks’ and Big 4 firms’ lobbying for laws and regulations that reduce transparency is likely to have resulted…

…sees no difference between committing a crime—tax evasion—and consciously choosing to not employ every tax dodge conceivably available in order to barely skirt the line of legally. And he thinks…

…influx of mega-bucks and turned once-grimy neighborhoods like Williamsburg into magnets for the rich and trendy. A big crime reduction in the 1990s was a main driver of moneyed people…

…requirement to show beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant had the intent to commit a crime, a significant barrier to successfully prosecuting any fraud case. And proving a perjury…

…was already charging profit-maximizing prices, and past losses are irrelevant to determining optimal forward-looking pricing strategy. Hmm logically this implies that people who live in high crime neighborhoods in which…