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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Rabbinic court in Tel Aviv created precedent revitalizing “fault divorce” at least in the most severe cases of  misbehavior of “privileged” spouse. The problem is, the precedent comes too late. The machinery of governmental crowding out the man from the … Continue reading →

At first glance, the Torah does not address the issues of economic and social order (surely, it does not discuss distinctions between free capitalist and socialist approaches). Talmudic sources, occasionally restricting economic freedom, often reflected realities of communities which survived … Continue reading →