Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls

ISBN-13: 9780521880466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 318 str.

James Leitzel; Jim Leitzel

Opis

Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience.

Recenzje

'Leitzel focuses on public policy towards traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling and commercial sex. He explains why vice prohibitions are generally misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine or heroin.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

1. The harm principle; 2. Addiction: rational and otherwise; 3. The robustness principle; 4. Prohibition; 5. Taxation, licensing, and advertising controls; 6. Commercial sex; 7. The internet and vice; 8. Free trade and federalism; Conclusions; Appendix: vice statistics; References.