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The Criminality of Transition
Lecture given at the Netherlands Economic Institute (NEI) on 18/4/2001
Human vice is the most certain thing after death and taxes, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin. The only variety of economic activity, which will surely survive even a nuclear holocaust, is bound to be crime. Prostitution, gambling, drugs and, in general, expressly illegal activities generate c. 400 billion USD annually to their perpetrators, thus making crime the third biggest industry on Earth (after the medical and pharmaceutical industries).
Many of the so called Economies in Transition and of HPICs (Highly Indebted Poor Countries) do resemble post-nuclear-holocaust ashes. GDPs in most of these economies either tumbled nominally or in real terms...
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Taping for TV prompts new-trial order; Appeals court rules on case involving Quincy man’s murder (Patriot Ledger)
In a ruling that could prompt challenges of more convictions in Boston cases, the state Appeals Court has ordered a new trial for two brothers convicted of killing a Quincy man because their attorneys allowed a television crew to tape confidential conversations with the defendants during their 1999 trial.
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GREENVILLE - Circuit Court Judge Richard Smith denied King Young Brown Jr.'s quest for a new trial. He also denied all, but one of several other motions made from attorneys involved in the Brown case.
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