interact without government. From their non-public-interested explanations of the creation of government law enforcement to … more realistic perspective on government and how people interact when government law enforcement is lacking. Although the …

result, they insufficiently police the agents during booms and excessively do so during busts. Conspicuous law enforcement … prosecutors face, as well as their failure to consider law enforcement's effect on principals' perceptions, result in enforcement …

social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We … show that not all shocks that could make society richer will reduce conflict. Positive shocks to labor intensive industries … will diminish social conflict, while positive shocks to capital intensive industries will increase it. The key requirement …

am able to shed light on enforcement behavior. I find that in parts of a city where drug penalties were weakened, there … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and … punishment and suggests that certain types enforcement can be reduced without incurring large public safety costs …