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Unusually High Criminality among Arizona’s “DREAMers”

Published on January 21, 2018 By sirrahc

“Unfortunately, if the goal of DACA is to give citizenship to a particularly law-abiding group of undocumented immigrants, it is accomplishing the opposite of what was intended.”  — John R. Lott Economists tend to be very good at number-crunching and statistics. John Lott, who holds a PhD in economics from UCLA, has worked for various […]

Free Markets vs Government Intervention: A Freedomnomical Epilogue

Published on October 3, 2010 By sirrahc

Consider this a “bookend” post, following up on some of the sentiments from my series on Jews and Liberalism — particularly the “Jewish Freedom and the Free Market” post of the other day. It comes primarily from the final ‘Parting Thoughts’ chapter of economist John R. Lott, Jr.’s book Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works […]