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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Traffic Circles and Safety
As promised in the last post, here’s one on traffic circles, a subject that I have also taken up here. From The Economist: One of their main attractions, says Mayor Brainard, is safety. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an … Continue reading
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Tagged city planning, engineering, safety, traffic, traffic circles, urban politics
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Statistics and Crime: “We are all criminals.”
Longtime readers will remember these posts on traffic laws. I’ve got another post coming down the pipe on traffic circles soon, and am also planning a post or two on the (mis)use of statistics and probability by political figures. However, … Continue reading
Opposing the “Stop Online Piracy” Act
I’ve been following the issue in articles like this one at The Atlantic, which has a great video that will get you up to speed quickly. Over the weekend I corresponded with one of the members of the Duke Office … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, intellectual property, internet, piracy, policy, politics, research, Stop Online Piracy Act, technology
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An Answer to Violence in Mexico
Professors Barbara Walter and Alberto Díaz-Cayeros over at the Monkey Cage: Their strategy of intimidation targets mayors, police, prosecutors, journalists, and pro-regime citizens. The cartels’ objective is to demonstrate that the government is too weak to punish them or protect future victims. In fact, … Continue reading
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Tagged assassination, drugs, DTO's, insurgency, judicial reform, Mexico, violence, War on Drugs
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But corporations don’t supply public goods!
One of the objections that could be raised to yesterday’s post is that corporations tend not to provide what are known as “public goods”–things that can be enjoyed by many people at the same time or over time without being … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, disaster relief, economics, Middle East, occupy movement, politics, redistribution, taxes, waqf
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Assassination is Counterproductive
Piling on to a growing body of research, including my own, here is Andrew Cockburn: By 2008, according to a U.S. Strategic Command study, our military was simultaneously engaged in no fewer than 285 human network attack programs. So, now … Continue reading
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What’s the big deal about corporations?
I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a lecture by Timur Kuran that discussed how the adoption of laws allowing corporations fostered the economic success of Europe. The only form of commercial organization allowed in the Ottoman Empire until the … Continue reading
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Tagged corporation, economics, occupy movement, political economy, politics, protests
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