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Tag Archives: drugs
Leadership Targeting and Perverse Incentives
If targeting of Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) leaders in Mexico has contributed to high levels of violence, as I argue in a working paper, then why hasn’t the Mexican government stopped the policy? Under former president Felipe Calderon there were … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, data, drug trafficking, drugs, DTO's, education, elections, foreign policy, international relations, leadership removal, Mexico, politics, terrorism, violence, war, War on Crime, War on Drugs, War on Terror
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Taxes, Moonshine, and State Building
I have to admit an ulterior motive behind Friday’s post. We discussed the Alchian-Allen theorem, which states that adding a fixed cost (usually but not necessarily for transportation) to the price of a good leads consumers to purchase more of the high … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, bootleggers and baptists, crime, culture, data, drugs, economics, education, entertainment, history, law enforcement, political science, politics, prohibition, taxes, technology, transportation, violence
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More Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxes
We have been talking about drug dealing this week, and today we turn our attention to the smuggling of a legal drug product: cigarettes. Differential state tax rates on cigarettes have unintended consequences, which we have discussed before. “Tobacco Road” … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, black markets, bootleggers and baptists, crime, drugs, economics, political science, politics, public policy, rationality, smuggling, taxes, transportation
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The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part II
Planet Money interviews “Freeway” Rick Ross, a former high-level drug dealer in LA. This interview offers another perspective on the drug business from the one we saw on Monday. The basics: PM: How much of the cost of the drug … Continue reading
The Politics and Economics of Dealing Drugs, Part I
Jeff Winkler interviews a small-time dealer for his perspective. The basics: How long have you been selling? I started in 2006 and, like most other dealers, started by being a heavy user of the product. I realized that if I … Continue reading
Do Targeted Killings Work?
Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations rounds up answers from Daniel Byman (sometimes), Joshua Foust (maybe), Sarah Holewinski (probably not), Patrick Johnston (yes, if targeted selectively), and Pir Zubair Shah (probably, at least in Pakistan). I have explored … Continue reading
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Tagged data, drugs, leadership removal, Mexico, political violence, politics, research, security, security studies, terrorism, war
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Cigarette Taxes and Unintended Consequences
One of the best questions you can ask a social scientist is, “and then what?” Thinking about second-order effects is essential to smart research and policy-making. Research on the unintended consequences of cigarette taxes helps to illustrate this point: Besides … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, drugs, economics, food, politics, rationality, research, statistics, UK
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Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?
That’s the title of a new paper (gated) in the Journal of Socio-Economics by Justin Ross, Pavel Yakovlev, and Fatima Carson. Here’s the abstract: Using recently released data on public mental health expenditures by U.S. states from 1997 to 2005, … Continue reading
Mexico’s President-Elect Aims to Reduce Violence
PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto is the apparent winner of Mexico’s presidential election held over the weekend. The PRI has been accused of corruption during its seven-decade reign that ended in 2000 with the election of Vicente Fox. (Mexico’s presidents … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, drug trafficking, drugs, elections, foreign policy, international relations, leadership removal, Mexico, politics, research, security, violence, war, War on Drugs
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Notes on the Sinaloa Cartel
From NYT over the weekend. Some of the article is hyperbolic, but I present the interesting parts here without comment. On logistics: From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, drug trafficking, drugs, mexican cartels, Mexico, organized crime, politics, violence
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