When Edwards dropped out and didn’t endorse I wondered briefly whether he might be holding out his endorsement as a prize for good behavior (or an endorsement of the other candidate as the penalty for starting a food-fight). If Edwards had done so, his goal would have been to bring about exactly the behavior we saw tonight.
When Edwards dropped out and didn’t endorse I wondered briefly whether he might be holding out his endorsement as a prize for good behavior (or an endorsement of the other candidate as the penalty for starting a food-fight). If Edwards had done so, his goal would have been to bring about exactly the behavior we saw tonight.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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