Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls

Leitzel, Jim

ISBN 10: 0521706602 / ISBN 13: 9780521706605

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007

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In nearly new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no creases. Just a few hardly noticeable cosmetic rubs. Hence a non-text page shows a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book looks and feels unread. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. And so a very nice book in great condition, now offered for sale at a reasonable price.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521706602
• ISBN 13: 9780521706605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 14 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Economics & Government

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Synopsis

Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience.

About the Author

Jim Leitzel teaches public policy and economics at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in economics from Duke University; he has taught at Vanderbilt University and Duke University, and served as the Academic Coordinator at the New Economic School in Moscow. Professor Leitzel has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy based at the Department of Economics of the University of Essex. His research has concerned areas such as transition economics, gun control, and law and economics, and his previous books include Russian Economic Reform and The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform. Professor Leitzel works with the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) in the former Soviet Union and the Bridging Research and Policy program of the Global Development Network (GDN). He is the founding member of Vice Squad (vicesquad.blogspot.com), a blog devoted to vice policy.