The Senlis proposal, behavioral decision theory, and suboxone: three new essays in drug policy.
The new issue of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis is now up:
* Victoria A. Greenfield, Letizia Paoli, and Peter H. Reuter on why the Senlis proposal to let Afghan farmers grow poppies for pharmaceutical market won’t dent drug dealing, improve farmers’ incomes, or relieve pain
* Thomas F. Kresina, Alain Litwin, Ira Marion, Robert Lubran, and H. Westley Clark on the regulation of opiate maintenance;
* Jonathan P. Caulkins and Ryan Menefee on how risk perception influences drug policies.
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
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Those all sound like interesting topics that I'd enjoy reading a few paragraphs about on a blog, but probably won't read an article in an academic journal. So I hope you'll consider blogging about them at some point.
Try the journal. These are all well-written essays, not collections of correlation coefficients, and they're not much longer than a long RBC post.
Try the journal, which is available free. These are all well-written essays, not collections of correlation coefficients, and they're not much longer than a long RBC post.