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Drug Addiction and the Open Society

Drug Addiction and the Open Society - provocative essay/review of two books challenging the conventional wisdom of drug policy. I don’t think I agree with it, but some good points in here.
Open societies cannot be open to everything. Even if it were possible to draw with great precision the line between what is harmful […]

Is the Tort System Costing the United States $865 Billion a Year?

Is the Tort System Costing the United States $865 Billion a Year? - in a word: no. Now I have to take back some of the mean things I said about Posner.
The authors’ estimate of the benefits (= costs) of the average foreign tort system, when subtracted from the $865 billion “cost” of our […]