Joseph Story on Capital Punishment

Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, Murder

Homicide and Capital Punishment

Punishment Schedules for Capital Flight

W HAT are appropriate penalties to discourage capital flight? Economic punishments can serve as effective deterrents for economic crimes but the penalties themselves are often costly to impose and enforce. Good public policy must take these costs into account in addition to the effectiveness of punishment schemes. In order to construct a deterrent to economically motivated behaviour, the enviro...

Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?

Ethical, philosophical and religious values are central to the continuing controversy over capital punishment. Nevertheless, factual evidence can and should inform policy making. The evidence for capital punishment as an uniquely effective deterrent to murder is especially important, since deterrence is the only major pragmatic argument on the pro-death penalty side.1 The purpose of this paper ...

A Capital Story

he dramatic growth in private capital flows to lowincome countries (LICs) around the world over the past quarter century is one of the good news stories of development. Capital flows and capital-like flows, such as aid grants and remittances that can substitute for capital flows, are at historic highs, spearheaded by a sharp rise in foreign direct investment in LIC economies. While government-t...