Despite the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to prosecute the War on Drugs in America and elsewhere, many experts have concluded that that effort has failed. Nobel laureate economist Gary S. Becker has recently written about the debate over cutting the losses and legalising drugs.
He argues legalisation should be
Economists are being asked what the total economic impact of the destruction and disruption in business activity caused by the terrorist attacks in the U.S.A will be. They are looking to past experience with wars and natural disasters for answers.
Most research finds that natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes have
Nuclear weapons showed their deterrence capability both in the Cold War and since, says physicist C. Paul Robinson interviewed by the National Journal before the September 11 attack.
During the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein killed tens of thousands of people using chemical agents. Robinson, former head of the U.S. nuclear
Contrary to popular belief, the hatred of capitalism behind the terrorist World Trade Centre bombing does not come from Islam. Indeed, one could argue that Islam is the most pro-business of all the world’s major religions.
The Prophet Muhammad was a businessman who engaged in extensive commerce before devoting himself exclusively
More Americans are overweight and, as a result, more are getting diabetes, according to new studies. Being overweight is the most important risk factor in developing adult-onset (type 2) diabetes, say researchers.
Researchers say that 56.4 percent of American adults were overweight in 2000, compared with 45 percent in 1991.
The terrorist attack on the U.S. has led to renewed calls for law enforcement agencies to have “backdoor” access to e-mail messages and other documents encoded with cryptographic software. This would require manufacturers to give the government “keys” that would fit “locks” in encoded messages. But computer scientists
How much does a country rely on personal choice and markets rather than government budgets and political decision-making? To actually develop and grow, ‘developing countries’ obviously cannot afford the dubious benefit of big government in the style of slow-growing European welfare states, and large government may comfort nobody but civil
Ireland’s hospital waiting list system is “flawed, inequitable and in need of reengineering,” according to a report from a group of management specialists, says the British Medical Journal.
Countries with national health systems use waiting lists to ration health care. In addition to waiting lists, there are often “unofficial” waiting lists
Humans are causing evolution on a grand scale and it is costing us hundreds of billions of dollars each year, says a Harvard University biologist. The sooner we realise it, he says, the sooner we can slow evolution down.
Every time a strain of bacteria becomes resistant to an antibiotic,
