Retrospectives: An Early Supply-Side–Demand-Side Controversy: Petty, Law, Cantillon

Richard Cantillon a Mercantilist ?

Comments and suggestions welcomed. Please do not quote without permission. 1 Was Richard Cantillon a Mercantilist? There are puzzling features in Cantillon's Essai and puzzles in what has been written about him. Also puzzling is the fact that these puzzles have not been thought important enough to study if indeed they have been thought about at all. May not one then ask if Cantillon ought to be...

Analysis of Postmodern Criminology with the Controversy of Criminal Law and Islamic Ethics

Background and Aim: The process of theoretical approaches in explaining crime throughout the history is indicative of various interpretations of crime. In 1980s, in the light of French and German schools of thought, the post-modern movement arouse just because they have a new interpretation of the concept of crime within the domains of criminal justice. It was mainly believed that crime was the...

Supply-side options for an endgame for the tobacco industry

Although governments have imposed controls on tobacco company behaviour, they have not yet aligned tobacco industry goals to public health objectives. As a result, tobacco companies have delayed or diminished the impact of imposed public health measures and have not contributed to curbing the epidemic of tobacco use. Over the past decade, several regulatory innovations have been proposed as way...

Is “supply-side Economics” Enough?

My answer to the question—Is “supply-side economics” enough?— is simply that it is both too much and too little. This paper will elaborate the sense in which “supply-side economics” is an exaggerated answerto current economic problems, and the sense in which it falls short of providing an adequate solution to our economic ills. I shall contend that “supply-side economics,” as defined by the med...

Nonparametrics: Retrospectives and Perspectives