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Justice, Medieval Stye

In today's Boston Globe.

Posted by on January 31, 2010 at 10:02 AM |

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Nice job, Pete - some of the comments are hilarious. (One even accused you of journalism!)

Posted by: Mark D. White | January 31, 2010 at 02:03 PM

Prof Leeson,

I enjoyed the paper a great deal, but I have to admit that I was disappointed to learn that "getting medieval on [one's] a**" involves neither blow torches nor pliars, but rather insufficiently heated coals, lukewarm boiling water, and rigged state-fair-like dunk-tanks.

-jb

Posted by: Jared Barton | February 01, 2010 at 01:52 AM

Either she's a witch or everyone gets duck soup. Both possible outcomes are desirable. That's what I call institution design.

Posted by: FC | February 01, 2010 at 03:54 AM

So if medieval "justice" was a bootstrap equilibrium, i.e. worked through self-validating beliefs, does this imply that the same could be true of a Keynesian macroeconomic "stimulus" program? Discuss.

Posted by: Lawrence H. White | February 01, 2010 at 12:26 PM

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