Showing posts with label hitmen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hitmen. Show all posts
Sunday, December 8, 2024

The market for hitmen is thin

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  The NYT has the story (but it isn't much of a story, the 'experts' don't know much...) Was Brian Thompson’s Killer a Hit M...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Are Swedish gangs becoming the hitmen of Scandanavia?

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 We're accustomed to drug violence among gangs even in wealthy countries, but here's a story from The Times (of London) suggesting t...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Barter of Russians in prison for prisoners in Russia--Redemption of Captives

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  Barter is alive and well in diplomacy, as evidenced by yesterday's multi-country multi-party prisoner swap.  Among the highlights was ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hitmen are common in film but otherwise scarce

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  The NYT considers the prevalence of hitmen in movies, and why it's hard to find one in real life. Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movi...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Kim Krawiec interviews me about repugnance on her podcast Taboo Trades

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 Kim Krawiec interviews me on her podcast Taboo Trades : She writes "Al Roth and I discuss hitmen, drugs, kidneys, paid sex, and other ...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

The market for hitmen

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Why are laws against hitmen more effective in most of the world than laws against drug dealers?  Yesterday's post was about a paper tha...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Forbidden Transactions and Black Markets

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 Here's a paper that was just published early online. (Only now do I see that I left out the middle initial I always use, but I'm on...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Inter-caste marriage as a repugnant transaction in India: a hired hitman and a murdered groom

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In the U.S. we've had long periods where the future of inter-racial and same-sex marriages were in doubt. In India, inter-caste marriag...