Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️
@GhostCoase
Interested in criminology, psychiatry, public choice, institutional, health and environmental economics. Anarchist.
Some characteristically brilliant excerpts from criminological remarks of Gary Kleck in 2000. First, longer prison sentences as *undermining* deterrence by, holding prison capacity fixed, lowering the number of severely punished persons.
New article in the Lancet that concludes "sanctions kill": "Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564 258 deaths... annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106 000 deaths)." "All economic sanctions…
Another Ukrainian border guard suddenly decided to change his place of residence — and fled to Hungary. 'The Hunger Games' continue.
New: Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we found that new marriages are stronger today than in every decade since the 1950s. @grantjbailey @lymanstoneky @BradWilcoxIFS
French anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on how hunting is decried because its violence, unlike the much larger of animal agriculture, is not “camouflag[ed]”, how local rules on hunting are better than national regulation and how the latter disproportionately favour elite hunters.
![GhostCoase's tweet image. French anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on how hunting is decried because its violence, unlike the much larger of animal agriculture, is not “camouflag[ed]”, how local rules on hunting are better than national regulation and how the latter disproportionately favour elite hunters.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwojZiuXQAAYYcn.jpg)
![GhostCoase's tweet image. French anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on how hunting is decried because its violence, unlike the much larger of animal agriculture, is not “camouflag[ed]”, how local rules on hunting are better than national regulation and how the latter disproportionately favour elite hunters.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwojZitXsAAPQaZ.jpg)
![GhostCoase's tweet image. French anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on how hunting is decried because its violence, unlike the much larger of animal agriculture, is not “camouflag[ed]”, how local rules on hunting are better than national regulation and how the latter disproportionately favour elite hunters.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwojZi2XYAAjazJ.jpg)
![GhostCoase's tweet image. French anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on how hunting is decried because its violence, unlike the much larger of animal agriculture, is not “camouflag[ed]”, how local rules on hunting are better than national regulation and how the latter disproportionately favour elite hunters.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwojZiuWoAEjA0s.jpg)
Very excited to be presenting our paper on the drivers of firearm ownership at the @nberpubs Economics of Crime sessions tomorrow 2 pm. Also live-streamed on YouTube nber.org/conferences/si…. Full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…
Simon Blackburn, inspired by Gilbert Ryle and David Hume as he often is, on personal identity, with an interesting comment on how the puzzle is typically internal to the person, not about others. youtube.com/watch?v=y4Ei2N…
Omens of purges to come: in 1932 Stalin claimed that the Ukrainian Communist Party had "not a few... rotten... direct agents" of Poland, presumably missed by the political police, covertly ready to opportunistically "open fire... against the Party".
In the 1920s the Soviet government had an "extremely aggressive" campaign to promote Ukrainian language, culture and ethnic Ukrainians, both to disarm the nationalists and to undermine Polish settler colonial control of the Ukrainian lower classes in the Eastern Borderlands.
More than 100 aid agencies say 'mass starvation' is spreading across Gaza bbc.in/3TTQMa0
“In addition to the air defense and missile insufficiencies, Ukraine’s ground troops, who remain vastly outnumbered on the front line, are also running low on 155mm artillery shells, Syrsky said, and need an additional supply of armored vehicles… North Korean troops, who may…
The average Canadian family spent 42.3% of its income on taxes in 2024 – more than on housing, food and clothing combined. fraserinstitute.org/studies/taxes-…
Richard Nixon was generally a pro-gun control person. A Nixon aide admits the plan to ban Saturday night specials (cheap handguns) alone was political, rather than criminological.
In country after country, more women are becoming literate. Since 1970, female literacy has surged in Rwanda, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Yemen—some more than tripling their rates.
What can liberals learn from Foucault?💡 @PeterBoettke sits down with @Kaleidicworld to explore his new book, which argues that Foucault’s insights can enrich liberalism’s understanding of power and self-creation. loom.ly/WxB9Cf4
The velocity of money has increased, for the United States, with a discontinuity in the middle of the 1990s.
I bet people felt more connected to money back in the cash era. Nowadays a just hold my watch over the till to pay for my latte and an abstract number I check every week or so goes down, but there's no visceral impact like there is from handing over cold hard paper.
New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.
From @JAMA_current: Remote, scalable cognitive behavioral therapy–based chronic pain programs are effective for treating individuals with high-impact chronic pain. ja.ma/46qkVVQ