| Description |
xxxvii, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The wrong question: critical notes on the decriminalization debate / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins -- Drug legalization and the "Goldilocks" problem: thinking about costs and control of drugs / Stephen K. Mugford -- The war we are losing / Milton Friedman -- Drug legalization and the consumption of drugs: an economist's perspective / Jeffrey A. Miron -- Rational addiction and the effect of price on consumption / Michael Grossman, Gary S. Becker, and Kevin M. Murphy. Comment / Victor R. Fuchs -- Externalities and decriminalization of drugs / Paul Taubman -- Homicide and crack in New York City / Hope Corman, Theodore Joyce, and Naci Mocan -- On the consequences of toughness / Peter Reuter. Comment / Victor R. Fuchs -- Drug policy in the Netherlands from a public health perspective / Eddy L. Engelsman. |
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(cont.) Pragmatic incoherence: the changing face of British drug policy / David Turner -- The optimal design of drug-control laws / Mark A. R. Kleiman -- The harm they do to others: a primer on the external costs of drug abuse / Joel W. Hay -- The logic of legalization: a matter of perspective / Mitchell S. Rosenthal. Comment / Barbara R. Williams --Beyond drug prohibition: evaluating the alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann - - Drug war forever? / Kevin B. Zeese -- Drug prohibition: an engine for crime / Ira Glasser -- Drugs, change, and realism: a critical evaluation of proposed legalization / Edwin Meese III. Comment / Joseph D. McNamara -- Answering the critics of drug legalization / James Ostrowski --Legalization: the myth exposed / Robert E. Peterson. Comment / Robert Sweet. |
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(cont.) U.S. efforts in the international drug war / Melvyn Levitsky -- Marijuana in a time of psychopharmacological McCarthyism / Lester Grinspoon -- Pharmacologic assessment of dependence risks / E. Leong Way -- Drug policy: some thoughts about striking the right balance / Ayram Goldstein -- Prohibition is perverse policy: what was true in 1933 is true now / John P. Morgan -- Legalization of drugs and beyond legalization / Kildare Clarke. Comment / Robert B. Millman. |
| Subject |
Drug control
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Drug legalization
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| Added Author |
Krauss, Melvyn B.
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Lazear, Edward P.
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| ISBN |
0817991425 (pbk.) |
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0817991417 : $42.95 |
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