September 30, 2004

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Via The Acorn comes a brief look at The Economics of Terrorism. I'd be interested to see further analysis of this - if economics can explain terrorism it can no doubt also help to provide answers to defeat it.

And as always the old truism "Sex sells" makes it obligatory to look at what economics has to say about sex and diseases (make sure you read the comments as well).

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