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Progress Report on my book

…Health Insurance Chapter 9. Crime Spending on the Administration of Justice, Murder, An Interlude: Explaining the Murder Rate, Public Corruption Chapter 10. The Public Mood Consumer Confidence, Suicide, The Stock…

A Civil Libertarian is a Congressperson who got Wiretapped

…legal and necessary” as well as “essential to U.S. national security,” and it was the “despicable” whistle-blowers (such as Thomas Tamm) who disclosed that crime and the newspapers which reported…

Megan McArdle Knows Galileo Was Waaay Over-rated

…– from abortion to crime to the unwed motherhood – and how they evolved over the administrations from Ike to GW. Since both I and my co-author have a special…

Bipartisanship and "Temporary" Payroll Tax Holidays

…would nudge investment from resource-intensive enterprises toward labor-intensive ones. This wouldn’t be just a tax adjustment. It would be an environmental program, an anti-global-warming program, a youth-employment (and anti-crime) program,…

Another look at falling participation rate for employment

…not counted which amounts to 1 in every 100 adults or 2.3 million adults. Violence and crime increases with increases in Unemployment. It is possible that Globalization and Productivity Increases…

USA a Center Left Nation

…was surprised by the results on crime and punishment. Nor am I generally surprised by pundits making claims about what Americans think which are inconsistent with polling data, although I…

How is it done, siphoning money from national security?

…guilty this year to corruption charges. Mr. Cantrell readily acknowledges concocting the crime. But what has drawn little scrutiny are his activities leading up to it. Thanks to important allies…

Financial Arsonists ?

…a big profit center in New York. Many buildings in crime ridden neighborhoods were grossly over-insured, so, in case of fire, the owners received much more than the value of…

Peltzman Effect

…deaths as a function of real income, demographics, crime, race, congestion, and other similar developments and develop models where seat belt use has a positive rather then a negative sign….