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Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

Author: Jeffrey A. Miron
Publisher: Independent Institute
Keywords: prohibition, consequences, crimes, war, drug
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0945999909
ISBN-13: 9780945999904

A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition’s effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. In particular, prohibition is shown to directly increase violent crime, even in cases where it deters drug use. Miron’s analysis leads to a disturbing finding-the more resources given to the fight against drugs, the greater the homicide rate. The costs and benefits of several alternatives to the

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The Economics of Seasonal Cycles

Author: Jeffrey A. Miron
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: cycles, seasonal, economics
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-08-13
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0262133237
ISBN-13: 9780262133234

Historically, economists sought to understand the economic significance of macro fluctuations associated with seasons. During the 1920s and 1930s, the focus shifted to business cycles, and seasonal fluctuations were treated as noise that could be removed from data before analysis. Jeffrey Miron seeks to reverse this trend, arguing that seasonal fluctuations have much to teach macroeconomists. He analyzes the economic forces that produce seasonality and discusses the lessons about economic behavior that result from this analysis. Compared to existing work on seasonality, Miron’s book focu

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Europe’s Nightmare: The Struggle for Kosovo

Author: Miron Rezu
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: kosovo, struggle, nightmare, europe
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-02-28
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 0275970728
ISBN-13: 9780275970727

Recent bombing campaigns and peacekeeping efforts have achieved a fragile and uncertain peace in Kosovo. However, NATO will need help from both the European Union and the United Nations to create and maintain a lasting peace in the region. An expert in the affairs of the troubled region, Rezun traveled to the crisis zone to interview Kosovar refugees and foreign statesmen. He offers a sharp critique of the conflict, taking NATO and the entire Western Alliance to task and emphasizing the villainous behavior of the Milosevic regime. One cannot consider what happened in Kosovo to be an isolated a

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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

Author: Miron Dolot
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: holocaust, hidden, hunger, execution
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1987-06-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393304167
ISBN-13: 9780393304169

An eyewitness account of the forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in 1929-1931 and the ensuing famine in the Ukraine, brought about by Stalin’s command.

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Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR

Author: Miron Rezun
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: ussr, ecopolitics, technology, science
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0275953831
ISBN-13: 9780275953836

Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. What the Soviets could not build or manufacture, they had to get from the West. The final outcome was a culture developed in which there was no regard for consumerism and no respect for the environment. The author traces the development of the Soviet malaise, but warns that a future authoritarian regime could still revive the technological race. Conversely, he also replies to the academic debate on the excesses of modern technology in the West, with a sharp criticis