This book brings together for the first time the emerging literature
that employs economics to analyze the implications of constitutional
protections of individual rights and freedoms, including freedom of
speech and of the press, the right to bear arms, the right against
unreasonable search, the right against self-incrimination, the right to
trial by jury, and the right against cruel or unusual punishment.
Several
of the papers included in the book employ economic theory to analyze
the efficiency of policies related to the constitutional protections,
and others formulate empirical models to estimate the effects of these
policies on observable outcomes. Many of the results are immediately
relevant to current debate and policy-making. Contributors include
Sendhil Mullainathan, Albert Breton and Daniel Seidmann.
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COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthless terrorists, they do the only thing that
might save them— they hire
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Pursued by an enchanted knife that eventually kills his best friend, Odin Far Seer begins a quest for vengeance against the knife's owner that pits him against the deadliest beings from Norse mythology.
This book brings together for the first time the emerging
