One myriad

Matt’s post below is RBC post #10,000.

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) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com

4 thoughts on “One myriad”

  1. Congratulations! Am not sure how many I have read – but always make sure to visit samefacts regularly for insightful discussions.

  2. This is one I’ve held on to as gold…
    And reread every so often…
    Lots of good stuff in there:

    http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/uncategorized/schelling-on-solar-radiation-management/#more-14205

    It also has a few predictions (I agree with the first and am contrary on the second):

    Naturally – this is Kleiman speaking not, not Schelling – when the “small government” loons get out of global-warming-denialist mode, they will naturally strongly prefer the SRM option to any sort of carbon controls: regulations, taxes, or cap-and-trade. This will be especially true of the propeller-head techno-optimists who think that every problem has an engineering solution. But I predict that they mostly won’t get their way. When one side of a debate denies the existence of a problem, it has (deserves) a hard time getting its preferred solutions to the purported non-problem taken seriously. That was the fate of much liberal thinking about crime control; once you’ve announced that “crime” is a made-up problem and that crime control is just a cover for racism, why should anyone pay attention to you when you announce that you know how to control it?

    I predict those that vociferously deny global warming will not be held accountable for being wrong. All will be forgotten in the very next sound byte. In fact, I think they’ll actually continue to dominate the debate. Conservative reality is wonderfully malleable. Sean Hannity will become an instant expert on cooling the planet down the minute he stops scolding everyone about it heating up. It is all very much like the zombie argument that tax cuts for the rich will cause all boats to rise.

    All boats will rise of course, but not because of Trickle Down.
    Which I guess is proof of that old saying: Even a blind zombie will find some carrion now and then…

  3. Congratulations to Mark, who toiled in solitude at this site for years and has written I suspect more RBC posts than the rest of us put together.

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