Lewis Carroll explains
    a basic principle of decision analysis
    with particular reference
    to the American adventure in Iraq
    and the Israeli adventure in Lebanon

Some snarks are boojums.

Some snarks are boojums.

That doesn’t mean than snarks should never be hunted.

It does mean that an insatiable appetite for snark-hunting is not a virtue in a statesman.

Author: Mark Kleiman

Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com

One thought on “Lewis Carroll explains
    a basic principle of decision analysis
    with particular reference
    to the American adventure in Iraq
    and the Israeli adventure in Lebanon”

  1. Brilling. Absolutely brilling. Snarks which are boojums in the ferbils of a statesman are like donuts in the graps of a biscuit. In the grach of a cowboy, however, boojum snarks caster the airpipe. And cause death.

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