Shomron Center for Economic Policy Research

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October 17, 2016
by Moshe
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Mordechai Kedar: The Hope, not Despair causes Terror

Professor Mordechai Kedar (the article is in Hebrew) compares level of terrorism provided from Yaffo, Haifa and East Jerusalem. He arrives to the same conclusions, our paper is reasoning on the basis of Israel and international experience.  Haifa and Yaffo … Continue reading

October 1, 2016
by Moshe
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Police to run away

California is exemplary ‘liberal’ (means dominated by Lefts) state. The Left ideology and policy could be formally defined as priority of care over defense, staunch support of governmental monopoly   on legitimate violence and more (see definition of Left here in … Continue reading

September 3, 2016
by Moshe
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Will the West Survive Until 2084? Israel perspective – updated version

Updated (edited) versions of previously published book are just uploaded The book approaches and ideas is developed and promoted in the Israel by the brochure “Will the West Survive until 2084? On the problems and Perspectives of the Family, Private … Continue reading

August 29, 2016
by Moshe
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Crime and Punishment: Jeff Jacoby comment

Here is highly recommended article written by Jeff Jacoby on punishment deterrence capacity and his  link on excellent collection of scientific articles on the issue. Classical paper by Isaak Ehrlich (1975)  must be added to the above mentioned list of … Continue reading

July 27, 2016
by Moshe
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US Military Aid making Israel defenseless ‘wimp ally’

More and more people publicly share their concern about incentives caused by US military aid for Israel. The problem we had discussed since 2011 (Yanovskiy Moshe, US Aid for Israel – A Historical Overview (version on March 3, 2014). Ex-ambassador … Continue reading

May 29, 2016
by Moshe
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One Year of Government 34 of Israel: Leading Parties’ Positions on Key Issues

Fourteen months has passed since the day of elections and more than one year since Government 34 of Israel has been sworn in 14 May, 2015 – long enough for the various political parties to demonstrate their readiness to live … Continue reading

May 22, 2016
by Moshe
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Prague Conference on Political Economy: explaining Nanny State rise

Sergei Zhavoronkov and Kirill Rodionov have presented the report  “Nanny State: few notes on origin and political machine” at Prague Conference on Political Economy.  The paper develops and upgrades  previous researches:  Universal Suffrage: Undeclared Conflict of Interest and   The Puzzle of … Continue reading

March 21, 2016
by Moshe
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Kill hope, prevent terrorism

The new paper is uploaded at SSRN: To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism Nor does history of Israel suggest any reasonable expectation that terrorists will be appeased by concessions of any kind, whether transfer of … Continue reading

February 1, 2016
by Moshe
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Where are their children?

Euro-bureaucrats had invited  millions savages from Middle East and North Africa. It turned to be new “Europeans”  destined by Brussels to vote for Big Unlimited Government, say,  not obsessed by their children fate. Now it turned to be 10000 children … Continue reading

January 31, 2016
by Moshe
Comments Off on Do I need ID to vote? Carpetbaggers and electoral fraud come back

Do I need ID to vote? Carpetbaggers and electoral fraud come back

Washington Post have published just before November 2014 Elections short Manual on “where to commit electoral fraud”.  The fraud masters from Democratic party supporting Unions got the signal and interpreted it quite clearly and rationally (the fact they failed generally … Continue reading