December 22, 2020
by Moshe
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Gradual economic reforms rarely (if ever) had proven to be successful. Tax reforms in Israel since 1990-ties just presents one more case to add to the failures’ collection. Almost all tax reforms in Israel since 1996 were ‘gradual’, ‘fine-tuning-style’, and … Continue reading
December 19, 2020
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We were asked by our friends to prepare a few introductory notes on inequality in Israel and here is a first draft. First and foremost we take into account a simple fact: Real Justice has nothing in common with redistribution … Continue reading
March 17, 2020
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As every crisis, current COVID19 pandemic causes economic setback, fuels demand of special interests and emboldens bureaucrats’ claim for more and more discretionary power. But the same crisis brings not only heavy losses for all the countries, but opportunity to … Continue reading
August 30, 2019
by Moshe
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Our paper “Universal Suffrage: The Century of Corrupting Incentives?” has been published (at long last) at Volume 14 of the New Perspectives on Political Economy (now on-line) – see pp. 63-89. The paper could be downloaded from the SSRN web site … Continue reading
October 4, 2018
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Our article “To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism” by Jewish Political Studies Review (JPSR Volume 29, Numbers 1–2 pp. 27-57). One could download the article (draft version) as pdf – file from SSRN or … Continue reading
March 6, 2018
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Here is the updated version of the report, presenting current state of our studies in political economy of the Family institution crisis. The family was targeted (actually, picked for destruction) by totalitarian intellectuals since Plato. Acute need to destroy it … Continue reading
October 1, 2017
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Political Factors Behind Cuts and Surges in Government Spending: The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries We tried to explain surges and cuts in governmental spending of Democratic countries by some of the political factors affecting governments’ abilities … Continue reading
September 25, 2017
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We are currently preparing a few courses based on our researches’ outcomes and data collected for our researches. Syllabuses, tests and other materials for the courses will be presented at the specialized page at this site. Currently you could find … Continue reading
July 23, 2017
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Journal of Constitutional Political Economy just published (Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2017 pp. 311-320) our article “A Proposal for a More Objective Measure of De Facto Constitutional Constraints”. Simple and easily correctable measures of institutions are based on observable … Continue reading
July 22, 2017
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After years of hysterical or totally senseless reviews and editors’ reactions we got from economic journals we had switched to military ones. Now we have got this very important for us publication in the Czech military Journal “Defence and Strategy” … Continue reading