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If Romney wins, we’ll know that this election was really just the prologue to the Bildungsroman of Nate Silver. After Tuesday, he quits the Times, travels the land…helping ordinary citizens, learning qualitative lessons.
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
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Liek the first Christopher Nolan Batman movie. I thought that was pretty good, but I would be happier if Romney lost.
The problem is the the NYT would hve given Nate the boot. Meanwhile, ten thousand professionally wrong pundits are still employed today, explaining away facts and reality.