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Following the federal 2005 Combat Methamphetamine Act and the augmentation of controls of meth precursors in individual U.S. States and in Mexico, the meth trade went into a swoon. Treatment admissions, drug purity and meth lab incidents all dropped substantially. Alas, all signs are that the respite is over
Archive for January, 2011
January 29th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
If you don’t have this stream running, you’re not aware. Al Jazeera’s coverage is a reproach to the Western media, at least as much of it as I’ve looked at.
January 29th, 2011
The findings of Kahn, Zasloff and Vaughn about the effect of California Coastal Commission regulation in its effective area reminded me of something. For a while, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it came to me this morning. I’m not sure they had to go all the way to Santa Monica from [...]
January 29th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Egyptian protestors at the margin — the free rider problem arises in Egypt — who is willing to fight the fight? China’s investments in green tech and biomedical research will accelerate progress in the United States. Ideas are public goods but the public appears to embrace the “zero sum game” cage match logic.
January 28th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized, Watching Conservatives
Should a twelve-year-old girl impregnated by her mother’s boyfriend be forced to carry the child to term? Yes she should, according to 173 House Republicans, including the Speaker.
January 28th, 2011
Category: Middle East Politics
Without saying that Mubarak has to go, Obama makes it pretty clear that the U.S. won’t support him, or the Egyptian military, in doing what would be necessary for him to stay.
January 28th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
A few months ago, I posted a blog post about the carbon footprint of pets. I see that my post must have started a new literature. Here is a new paper titled “Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis”. Perhaps blogging and academic writing are like peanut butter and jelly? Now, I have wondered about how close substitutes are pets [...]
January 28th, 2011
Category: Middle East Politics
The day after Biden says Mubarak isn’t a dictator, the dictator Mubarak turns off the Internet all over Egypt. Not good.
January 27th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Jonathan Zasloff and I have published a paper about the housing market effects of Land use regulation . It has just been published in the mighty Journal of Housing Economics. In case you don’t subscribe to that journal, permit me to sketch why it interests us.