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Anti drug policy: fighting for migration?
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Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
Abstract "Supply restricting anti-drug policy is inefficient from an economic point of view, but is nevertheless widely used. This paper explains this phenomenon as individually rational behavior for local government. Because supply restrictions give addicts an incentive to migrate it has an external effect.... view more
"Supply restricting anti-drug policy is inefficient from an economic point of view, but is nevertheless widely used. This paper explains this phenomenon as individually rational behavior for local government. Because supply restrictions give addicts an incentive to migrate it has an external effect. This effect makes a policy of supply restrictions individually rational but leads to socially wasteful competition between local governments in a federal system." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
drug policy; rationality; behavior; drug use; microeconomic factors
Classification
Social Problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
1991
Series
Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 91-08
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/112699
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