January 7, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on How to make electorate informed: natural way vs. artificial way
There is old, reliable well tested way to keep voter well informed. To enfranchise taxpayer only and his incentives to keep government accountable will make him well informed soon. Our Canadian colleagues is searching a way to inform well “first … Continue reading
November 18, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on Don’t touch private person and his property for 200 years
The best ever prescription of economic prosperity for Government: forget about discretionary arrests and property rights breaches for 200 years: How Democracy Could Cause Economic Growth: The Last 200 Years (November 6, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519823 Political competition and independent … Continue reading
November 17, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on How Butter Beats the Guns
How citizen, which is fed by Governmental butter loses guns protection: “How Butter Beats the Guns?” (November 12, 2014) by Yanovskiy, Moshe, Syunyaev, Georgiy and Zatcovetsky, Ilia,. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2523605 The correlation of state spending on pure and mixed … Continue reading
September 17, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on How to measure Democracy and Economic Freedom?
How to measure Democracy? See Polity Indices! How to measure Economic Freedom – see EFW Indices. How to measure Political institutions quality for better assessment of economic growth dependency on the Freedom and on Democracy? Try ours’ indices. One, … Continue reading
July 9, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on New IDF operation in Gaza raises old questions
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) just started new operation “Protective Edge” against HAMAS terrorists in Gaza. The most prominent right-wing leader in Israel – Knesset vice-speaker Moshe Feiglin loudly objected the operation (The Knesset security Commission seating in Sderot – discussion … Continue reading
July 7, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on Government vs. Family: intervention stages (Reference materials)
Reference materials for the paper “” uploaded at SSRN. The Reference materials contains the Literature review (Demographic transition interpretations), the family regulations modes model and Government intervention stages (timeline) table.
June 27, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on Elections as a choice between terrorists’ gangs
The paper originally presented at Public Choice 2006 conference just updated and uploaded at SSRN: Democracy: a Conflict Extinguisher or a Fuel for Terror? Cases of Arabian (“Palestine” Autonomy (Israel) and Chechen Republic (Russia). What kind of change one could anticipate … Continue reading
April 22, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on The Evolving Priorities of the Israeli Left: From Social Justice to Security and Back
New paper has been uploaded at SSRN site. The present article traces the dynamics of the priorities chosen by leading leftist parties in Israel vis-à-vis the functions of the state. During the period of the British Mandate they, like all leftist … Continue reading
March 30, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on Selected notes on political economy of Intl Relations: US aid for Israel
We plan to start and promote a series of micro-projects on Political Economy of International Relations: Alliances and Sanctions. First draft of very first paper already uploaded at SSRN. Historical data on US aid to Israel illustrates incentives of political … Continue reading
February 16, 2014
by Moshe
Comments Off on New Papers for Public Choice Conference 2014
Moshe Yanovskiy and Sergey Zhavoronkov are going to attend coming (march 2014) annual conference of Public Choice Society. Two papers would be presented March, 9. Democracy of ‘Taxation-Redistribution’ and Peacetime Budget Deficit The Limits of Governmental Intervention: Some Ways How … Continue reading