Christopher Hewitt, in Terrorism (No. 3, 1988), Crane,And Dollars Russak & Co., 3 E. 44th St., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Terrorists the world over hope to achieve tions were relatively numerous and costly their various political goals disrupting ($22.5 million); in Northern Ireland, there societies, spreading fear, and provoking were none. The Basque ETA exacted a governments into repressive acts. What heavy toll in "revolutionary tax" extortions about their economic impact? from local...
Spain (814), Cyprus (652), and Italy (386).
Almost everywhere, terrorist campaigns sparked increases in government outlays for police and other security forces. Oddly, however, these expenditures often bore lit- tle relation to the actual threat. Thus, West Germany, facing relatively minor terror- ism, spent an additional $2.7 billion over 11 years, while Italy's internal security
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spending dropped.
Adding up the direct dollar costs of ter- rorism, Hewitt found th...
Robert Eisner, in Journal of Economic Literature (Dec. 1988), 1313 21st Ave. S., Ste. 809, Nashville, Tenn. 37212-2786.
Most Americans regard the gross national product (GNP) as the basic gauge of the nation's economic progress. But Eisner, president of the American Economics Association, writes that many specialists believe that the official GNP figures are deeply flawed.
The GNP is calculated from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), a kind of national...
Robert Eisner, in Journal of Economic Literature (Dec. 1988), 1313 21st Ave. S., Ste. 809, Nashville, Tenn. 37212-2786.
Most Americans regard the gross national product (GNP) as the basic gauge of the nation's economic progress. But Eisner, president of the American Economics Association, writes that many specialists believe that the official GNP figures are deeply flawed.
The GNP is calculated from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), a kind of national...
James S. Coleman, in Noire Dame Journal of 'Social Capital' Law, Ethics, & Public Policy (NO.3, 1988), Notre Dame Law
School, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556.
Two years ago, in a controversial study comparing 1,015 public and private high schools, Coleman, a University of Chicago sociologist, found that private schools, par- ticularly Catholic schools, frequently out- performed public schools.
Less widely noted at the time were dif- ferences among the private schools. The "independent" p...
James S. Coleman, in Noire Dame Journal of 'Social Capital' Law, Ethics, & Public Policy (NO.3, 1988), Notre Dame Law
School, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556.
Two years ago, in a controversial study comparing 1,015 public and private high schools, Coleman, a University of Chicago sociologist, found that private schools, par- ticularly Catholic schools, frequently out- performed public schools.
Less widely noted at the time were dif- ferences among the private schools. The "independent" p...
much re- cent experience, is "community-oriented policing." At its best, it involves police working with other city agencies and the residents of a targeted neighborhood to es- tablish public order and safety. Some proven remedies: cleaning up alleys, fixing broken windows, improving lighting, tear- ing down abandoned buildings (havens for drug users), repeatedly sweeping drug-in- fested areas, and deploying foot patrols. The results are more than cosmetic: "Law- abiding citizens...
Vernon Carstensen, in P~ib1iii.s (Fall 1988), 1017 Gladfelter Hall. Temple University 025-25, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122.
In 1785, Congress passed a law, now ob- scure, that was to change the face of Amer- ica during the next century.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for the division of the nation's then-limited public lands west of the Appalachian Mountains into townships six miles square, subdivided into 36 one-mile- square (or 640-acre) "sections."
"Like bees or ants or other...
"The Powers That Be Lobbying" Sheila Kaplan, in The wash-ington Monthly (Dec. 1988), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.
On Capitol Hill, the "media lobby1'-representing TV broadcasters, cable TV, and newspaper and magazine publish- ers-is one of the most powerful. Do these guardians of the Fourth Estate spend their time crusading for First Amendment rights? "Occasionally," reports Kaplan, a freelance writer. "But the day-to-day work of a Washington m...
"The Powers That Be Lobbying" Sheila Kaplan, in The wash-ington Monthly (Dec. 1988), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.
On Capitol Hill, the "media lobby1'-representing TV broadcasters, cable TV, and newspaper and magazine publish- ers-is one of the most powerful. Do these guardians of the Fourth Estate spend their time crusading for First Amendment rights? "Occasionally," reports Kaplan, a freelance writer. "But the day-to-day work of a Washington...