The Economic Results of Prohibition
Author : Clark Warburton
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
ISBN :
Author : Clark Warburton
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
ISBN :
Author : Mark Thornton
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Drug abuse and crime
ISBN : 1610164652
Examines the failure of Prohibition; discusses how this analysis can be applied to the effects of illegal drugs on today's economy.
Author : Mark Thornton
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610160479
Examines the failure of Prohibition; discusses how this analysis can be applied to the effects of illegal drugs on today's economy.
Author : Clark Warburton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Prohibition
ISBN :
Author : Richard Martin Boeckel
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Prohibition
ISBN :
Author : Herman Feldman
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN :
Author : Jeffrey A. Miron
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1598131478
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 war on drugs are examined. The conclusion is unequivocal and states that any of the most widely discussed alternatives is likely to be a substantial improvement over current policy.
Author : United States Department of Transportation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1985-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309034493
Alcohol is a killerâ€"1 of every 13 deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. In addition, 5 percent of the population consumes 50 percent of the alcohol. The authors take a close look at the problem in a "classy little study," as The Washington Post called this book. The Library Journal states, "...[T]his is one book that addresses solutions....And it's enjoyably readable....This is an excellent review for anyone in the alcoholism prevention business, and good background reading for the interested layperson." The Washington Post agrees: the book "...likely will wind up on the bookshelves of counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country."
Author : Clark WARBURTON
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 1932
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Lisa McGirr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0393248798
“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.