Austrian Addiction

Dan D'Amico on proportionate punishment, free market prisons, criminal justice, Austrian economics and much more.

January 2009 - Posts

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C and P primer from NPR. More on the name game of crime. Rural folk even those from the state like guns more. Collateral damage from the war on drugs . Crime rise amongst older Japanese. Using criminals to fight crime. Read More...
GMU recidivism study
What do researchers with over a million dollars of funding from the National Institute for Health look for first when tracking released inmates? Drum roll please..."are they paying their taxes?" Check it out. Read More...
The Gap between politics and economics
For all the recent talk about a unified nation there seem to be some undeniable rifts in opinion as of lately. First a brief comment on partisanship. As I already mentioned I've been watching the stimulus package committee meetings on CSPAN and they...
Stimulus committee
Last night I stopped the clicker on CSPAN for a while, it was one of the stimulus package committee meetings. Man these things are better drama then anything else that's on TV! There was some obvious tension across party lines. Democrats presented...
Updated website
Some recent publications and my full dissertation, now available at www.danieljdamico.com Read More...