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Democracy Will Live As Long As Citizens Maintain Respect, Randy Lee
Democracy Will Live As Long As Citizens Maintain Respect, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
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Would They Make Us Safer?, Ryan Williams
Commentary On Predicting Crime, Tom Bell
Commentary On Predicting Crime, Tom Bell
Tom W. Bell
The market mechanisms proposed in Predicting Crime offer many virtues. The authors describe several of these—unbiased information collection; incentives that encourage disclosure; opinions weighted by conviction; information aggregation; instantaneous and continuous feedback—and convincingly argue that these structural features stand to help prediction markets outperform alternative institutions in forecasting the interplay of crime rates and crime polices. In that, Predicting Crime adopts an economic point of view and speaks in terms of practical experience. After all, similar structural features have already appeared in other successful prediction markets, such as those offering trading in claims about the weather, flu outbreaks, or box …
The Public-Private Dichotomy In Morality And Law, Larry D. Barnett
The Public-Private Dichotomy In Morality And Law, Larry D. Barnett
Larry D Barnett
The article advances the thesis that the doctrines and concepts of law are attributable to the properties of society and to the forces molding these properties. The thesis, after being illustrated with the federal Investment Advisers Act, is assessed quantitatively using data from the General Social Survey. The Survey interviews a national sample of adults in U.S. households, and in 1991, it ascertained whether interviewees classified morality as a private matter or as a public issue. The social values of interviewees on the public-private nature of morality were the dependent variable in a study that assumed (i) an activity is …