Concerns have been raised that a focus on greenhouse gas removals (GGR) in climate models, scientific literature and other media might deter measures to mitigate change through reduction of emissions at source – the phenomenon ‘mitigation deterrence’. Given urgent need for action, any delay would be worrying. We convened nine deliberative workshops expose stakeholders futures scenarios involvin...

Standard formulations of the economic model tort deterrence constitute injurer as unboundedly rational bad man. Unbounded rationality implies that can always compute solution to his caretaking problem. This in turn optimal liability rules provide robust deterrence, for they induce take socially care. In this paper I examine computational complexity injurer’s show problem is computationally trac...

Nuclear deterrence is central to international relations theory and practice. Most people assume that countries must possess nuclear weapons in order to reap deterrence benefits from their nuclear programs. This article shows, however, that latent nuclear powers – nonnuclear states that possess the capacity to make weapons – can deter aggression, despite their lack of assembled warheads. Latent...

We consider a setting in which two potential buyers, one with a prior toehold and one without, compete in a takeover modelled as an ascending auction with participating costs. The toeholder is more aggressive during the takeover process because she is also a seller of her own shares. The non-toeholder anticipates this extra-aggressiveness of the toeholder. Thus, the non-toeholder is deterred fr...

The death penalty serves two primary public interests: retribution and deterrence.1 Retribution is the interest that the offender receives punishment in accordance with the culpability of the offender.2 Deterrence is the public interest in discouraging potential offenders from committing capital crimes.3 Implementing the death penalty on the intellectually disabled4 does not satisfy these inter...

In pursuing the above goal, Deterring Terrorism is part of a post-9-11 progression in thought. The initial belief was that terrorist organizations were irrational and therefore undeterrable. This assumption then had a direct impact on counterterrorism policy, which first privileged prevention, preemptive force and eradication over deterrence. This initial paradigm of terror, however, did not la...

Legal sanctions, whether administered by the courts or by State licensing agencies, NC central to deterrence-based policies for reducing alcohol-impaired driving. They are the punishments threatened in support of the law’s mandate. Examples are fines, license actions such as suspension and revocation, jail sentences, and alternatives such as community service. Deterrence theory posits that sanc...

In most OECD countries THE policy instrument of choice to prevent people from working in the shadows has been deterrence. While deterrence is well-founded from a theoretical point of view, the empirical evidence on its success is weak: tax policies and state deregulation appear to work much better. The discussion of the recent literature underlines that in addition economic opportunities, the o...