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Nancy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:19:35 -0000

Great blog.Thanks for the info.

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Antonis Roussos — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:24:29 -0000

Please see also this interesting analysis in the Becker-Posner blog.

http://www.becker-posner-bl...

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John P. — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:29:33 -0000

thingsbetterwithkoch -- Your reference to "Darwin economics" has me wondering if you are the same person who previously posted as "faultolerant." If you are, I posted a question a few threads back that may have been overlooked: What job do you have that pays $250k per year, while you have yet to earn your first degree?

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Timothy — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:57:09 -0000

Each member traded basically a year's worth of casino compensation to ensure that they kept exclusive rights. Even of those rights last only another few years it was more than worth the investment, even with a reasonable discount rate.

And it's not like we're shocked government is for sale to the highest bidder: people respond to the incentives they have, government creates many perverse incentives. The individuals involved are still responsible for any violations of law or ethics, but it's hard to be surprised. One might say that with as large a central government as we have this sort of thing is inevitable.

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thingsbetterwithkoch — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:29:41 -0000

Government for sale to the highest bidder. Is that Libertarianism? Where is your righteous indignation? Oh, that's right, if we didn't have government, there wouldn't be a problem. Or better yet, if I'm the government, everything will be ok. But it fits with Darwin economics. The Indians couldn't handle their money well and were parted with it. Right?

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William — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:30:17 -0000

Good old-fashioned rent-seeking. Isn't it nice when it's so easy to pick out?

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Ivan Kirigin — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:41:09 -0000

I'm not sure incentives for indiginous peoples to have more children are bad.

Either way, I would prefer my mobsters have an interesting cultural background, rather than a bunch of NJ italians :)

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doinkicarus — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:23:43 -0000

Sounds familiar. Where I went to undergrad, at Central Michigan University, the local Chippewa Indian tribe had a large casino resort. Their dividends were to the tune of $52,000 per adult over 18, per year, with an allowance of $20,000 per minor child who resided with them. So yeah, about $140,000.00 per year, for a family of four.

But most of the reservation, strangely enough, lived in absolute squalor and abject poverty. I never could understand that.