My co-author Ed Stringham has a nice op-ed on prosecutorial abuse and private law in today’s Washington Times. Check it out.
My co-author Ed Stringham has a nice op-ed on prosecutorial abuse and private law in today’s Washington Times. Check it out.
May 22 2007
One of my best friends at Princeton was Gordon Dahl. He's the kind of guy who never says anything stronger than "My goodness." His favorite show, as far as I recall, was "Touched By An Angel." But now he's got a paper on the benefits of violent movies. James Hamilton explains: The authors [Dahl and DellaVigna] note...
May 22 2007
George Borjas, the most academically reputable critic of immigration in economics, is now blogging. To be frank, I just don't get him. There isn't a decent economist alive who would oppose free trade in textiles by pointing out that it hurts American textile workers. But Borjas has made a career out of pointing out ...
May 22 2007
My co-author Ed Stringham has a nice op-ed on prosecutorial abuse and private law in today's Washington Times. Check it out.
READER COMMENTS
Daublin
May 23 2007 at 8:12am
Rape is a bad example. Private arbitration seems to have a lot to say for it, but doing it well seems to require that the participants agree on arbitration terms before entering an agreement. For basic force-prevention issues like rape, I don’t see how you could set up a private market.
R. Richard Schweitzer
May 23 2007 at 7:48pm
Yes, prosecutorial abuse is the greatest danger to personal freedom in the U.S.
But, did you read on that he purports that Duke University would have provided “better” private justice.
Really, is he aware of the facts about that faculty, and those Trustees? How did they respond publicly to the original accusations?
No justice at that source!
Barkley Rosser
May 24 2007 at 1:34pm
Ed is getting further and further out there. Not only has he called Milton Friedman a “communist,” but I understand that recently while speaking at the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Auburn U., he called both Friedrich Hayek and (gasp!) Ludwig von Mises himself communists. I have heard of this faction that says that Hayek was a social democrat, which is a case that can be made up to a point. But, Mises???
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