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Мне особенно понравились эти цитаты:
(про экономику конфликта)
This is one example of a very general implication of the economic analysis of conflict. In order to stop someone from doing something that injures you, whether robbing your house or polluting your air, it is not necessary to make it impossible for him to do it—merely unprofitable.
(про несуществующие гигантские иерархические криминальные организации)
The work that has been done, however, such as that of Peter Reuter and Jonathan B. Rubinstein, seems to confirm what theory suggests. Criminal firms seem to be relatively small, and the organization of criminal industries relatively decentralized—precisely the opposite of the pattern described in novels, movies, and the popular press.
(про бесплодную борьбу с наркотиками)
Published estimates suggest that the cost of producing drugs abroad and transporting them to the United States represents only about 1 percent of their street price. So even if we succeed in doubling the cost of coca—which seems unlikely, given experience with elasticity of supply of other crops—the result would be only about a 1 percent increase in the price of cocaine, and a correspondingly small decrease in the amount consumed.
(про неочевидность необходимости уголовного права)
One final interesting question is why we have criminal law at all. In our legal system some offenses are called civil and prosecuted by the victim, while others are called criminal and prosecuted by the state. Why not have a pure civil system, in which robbery would be treated like trespass or breach of contract, with the victim suing the robber?
2. Журналист газеты New York Times поражается тому, что Движение чаепитий черпает вдохновение из книг Хайека и Бастиа.
3. Короткое описание того, как государство национализировало систему частного социального обеспечения (для тех, кто не хочет читать целиком книгу Дэвида Грина).
4. Джефф Джакоби о программе компенсации за сдачу в утиль подержанных автомобилей (Россия скопировала эту идиотскую программу у США). When all is said and done, Cash for Clunkers was a deplorable exercise in budgetary wastefulness, asset destruction, environmental irrelevance, and economic idiocy. Other than that, it was a screaming success.
5. Уве Райнхард о том, как экономисты придают ореол научности своим ценностным суждениям.
Мне особенно понравилась эта цитата про критерий эффективности по Калдору-Хиксу:
Evidently, on the Kaldor-Hicks criterion one need not know who Jack and Jill are, nor anything about their economic circumstances. Furthermore, a truly stunning implication of the criterion is that if a public policy takes $X away from one citizen and gives it to another, and nothing else changes, then such a policy is welfare neutral. Would any non-economist buy that proposition?
6. Любители справа против профессионалов слева.
7. Вот это губернаторище. Губернатор Донецкой области Близнюк борется с поношенными трусами и другим second-hand-ом.
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