Archive for Morgan O. Reynolds
To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Over the last three decades, the share of GDP consumed by the public sector on crime control has tripled and now exceeds $100 billion annually, or about $1,000 per household. Crime rates have declined in the 1990s, suggesting some benefit from the expenditure, yet crime stubbornly remains three times higher than 30 years ago, according [...]
1Oct1999 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | ContinuedNo More Wacos: What’s Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It by David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman
Prometheus Books • 1997 • 524 pages • $26.95 Morgan Reynolds is director of the Criminal Justice Center at the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, and professor of economics at Texas A&M University. But who is to guard the guards?,” wrote the Roman poet Juvenal. No event in modern times better illustrates the wisdom [...]
1Feb1998 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect
Professor Reynolds teaches in the economics department at Texas A & M University. On January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese communists marched into Phnom Penh and replaced the Khmer Rouge nightmare with a more familiar brand of tyranny. Western journalists and scholars eventually reported the chaos, famine, and genocide that brutalized Cambodia from 1975-1979, but something [...]
1May1989 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to Reduce Crime
Morgan O. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A & M University. This article is based on Crime by Choice, to be published by the Fisher Institute in 1984. Crime remains a silent contender for the number I domestic ill. It won’t go away. Criminal experts are prone to explain this by saying [...]
1Mar1984 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 1 comment | ContinuedUnions and Violence
Morgan O. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A & M University. There is a long and violent history of labor disputes in this country. The facts really are not in serious dispute, only their interpretation. Facts always are interpreted within the context of a general theory of human action. One view, popular [...]
1Feb1983 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | Continued-
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