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18
Feb
2022

Media Coverage Isn’t as Bad as You Might Think

It is entirely reasonable to believe that media coverage is systematically flawed. In some ways, it is! Too much attention is paid to violent crime (Altheide 1997; Soroka 2014). Tweets are increasingly...
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25
Nov
2020

(Re)Discovering Our “Better Angels”

What do the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, free and fair elections, and secure homelands share in common? It is this: achieving these extraordinary ends depends on committed public...
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6
Aug
2019

Who runs the joint? Gangs and social order in...

To most people, life in prison is a mystery. In a new study, we examine many aspects of prison life, with a special focus on the role of gangs. We interviewed 802 inmates in prison in Texas, half of whom...
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15
Feb
2019

Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and...

Should prostitution, or the buying and selling of sexual services, be legalized? Similarly for the monetary exchanges of many other controversial items like kidneys and other organs, blood, surrogate motherhood,...
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26
May
2017

Insurance and adverse selection: counter-argument

My previous blog summarised the orthodox argument why adverse selection in insurance is a bad thing. This present blog gives the counter-argument from my book Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better...
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25
May
2017

Insurance and adverse selection: orthodoxy

Guy Thomas explores why adverse selection in insurance is usually seen as a bad thing in the first of two blog posts based on his new book
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14
Apr
2017

How Government Insiders Subvert the Public...

Mark A. Zupan, author of Inside Job, discusses whether democracy - government by the people - can ensure government for the people. ...
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