Crime, punishment, and the market for offenses
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The equilibrium market model of crime explains that crime is a social fact that survives in the society because offenders, private individuals, and government fail to adjust their behavior and change the current net return associated with crime. Economists feel that rules of optimizing behavior control offenders and the law enforcement officials. The deterrence hypothesis and the market model depend on the marginal efficiency of both positive and negative incentives of crime and on the interaction between demand and supply forces of offenses. Social costs and welfare must determine means of crime control.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 1996
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Nanosize Me
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The article takes a slightly humorous look at public image of certain scientific and technological terms, focusing on the current popularity of "nano" as in nanotechnology. It concludes with the potentially negative effects of the inappropriate use of science terms used only to boost corporate public image.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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The Red Queen's health-care revolution
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Alberta, Canada's Deputy Health Minister Jane Fulton is unpopular with both doctors and health-care liberals. Fulton strongly supports a limited, cost-efficient, more commercialized form of privatization for health care that is similar to that of the US.
Publication Name: Chatelaine
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0009-1995
Year: 1996
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