Fiscal stress and the production of public safety: a distance function theory

Article Abstract:

The manner by which local government bureaucracies cope with the problem of increasing threats to public safety in the face of budgetary constraints is analyzed. The Dallas Police Dept. is used as a model for the analysis which incorporates technology and the substitutability of civilian and police personnel. Results show that, unlike during ordinary circumstances, the bureaucracy tends to be wise and efficient in allocating resources when faced with the twin social and financial problem.

Social policy, Local government

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Sentencing policy, implied demographic welfare weights, and the theory of sentencing reform

Article Abstract:

Different groups of people are affected by externalities in different ways. Similarly, efforts by government to control such externalities produce varying degrees of benefit, or imply different welfare weights, for different social groups. In 1984 Ahmad and Stern developed a framework to infer welfare weights underlying a system of commodity taxation. The same framework is used to infer welfare weights implicitly attached to different social groups by US sentencing policy.

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Sentencing & Penalties, Social aspects, Administration of justice, Sentences (Criminal procedure)

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Some properties of egalitarian economies

Article Abstract:

An analysis of egalitarian economies is presented. The analysis considers strictly egalitarian economies where equilibrium conditions are set and social well-being is maximized. It is shown that such conditions persist independent of returns to scale standards. In addition, egalitarian economies are unaffected by variables of monopoly, externalities of consumption or production, commodity taxes or public goods provision.

Macroeconomics

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