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The Incentive Effects of No Fault Automobile Insurance

(August 16, 1999) This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of no fault automobile insurance on accident rates. Continue reading

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Book reviews – Feminism’s dark side

(June 21, 1999) Prominent U.S. feminist Katha Pollitt once said that feminism promised women “a life not just with more justice but also with more freedom, more self-respect, more choices, more pleasure.” Continue reading

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The end of a nation-state

(June 1, 1999) Kosovo calls forth images of ethnic cleansing, mass refugee movements, and Balkan barbarism, but history will pay scant attention to these staples of this year’s nightly newscasts, unsettling though they are. Kosovo is a milestone in the decline of the nation state, an institution but a few hundred years old and already obsolete. Continue reading

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Selling Toronto Transit for savings and profit

(February 6, 1999) Following global trend to privatization could produce big dividends. Continue reading

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3600 No-Fault Compensation Systems

(January 1, 1999) This chapter surveys the no-fault compensation literature and concludes that the main focus has been the adequacy of the tort system as a system of compensation and deterrence. Continue reading

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