December 27, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on Political factors behind Surges and Cuts of Government spending
Our new paper just uploaded at SSRN: “Political Factors of the Cuts and Surges in Government Spending: The Effects on Old Market Democracies and Post-Communist Countries“. Based on the comparative analysis of the experiences of both old and new market … Continue reading
July 4, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on Notes on New and Old Military Justice, Army’s ethics & Morale
Modern military Justice punishes officers and soldiers of democratic nations’ armies for their military success. “Excessive use of force” and similar artificial judicial constructions undermine incentives of army officers, making the military machine virtually inoperative. Artificially abridged Army capability prevents … Continue reading
March 31, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on New paper: on selective enforcement of anti-discrimination Legislation
The paper: “The puzzle of selectivity in fighting discrimination: A public choice approach” is very preliminary draft of the text for the coming books on new way to fight Freedom, “fighting minorities’ discrimination”… of course, selectively fighting. Advocates of the … Continue reading
March 2, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on XX Knesset Elections: What Do These Parties Really Stand for?
Why people less and less interested in the parties’ electoral platforms? Why Leftists in spite of numerous failures in security (“Peace Process”) and in spite of poor performance in economic issues are going on in pushing their radical ideas and … Continue reading
January 18, 2015
by Moshe
Comments Off on Revisiting Terrorism studies: new papers’ 1st draft
We had started a series of short studies of terrorism “supply” and counter-terrorism “under-supply” incentives since 2004. After few years of break we returned to the issue starting with well forgotten story: how Oslo “peace” process was explained and advocated … 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 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