In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…
This paper investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored
mass violence against civilians. We use a unique…
Most active state and local government employees are covered by health plans, and these plans extend into retirement as well.1 The…
The upstream renaissance in the United States that has resulted from the successful application of new technologies in the exploration and…
Moral hazard--the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others--is a particularly tricky question…
In this paper, we study how the terms of access to an incumbent’s infrastructure (i.e., the level of access and price) affect an entrant’s…
Immigrant Entrepreneurship. William R. Kerr, December 2014, Paper. "This chapter examines immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and…