Comments on: Crime and Punishment, Part 3 http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/09/19/crime-and-punishment-part-3/ Sociology and other distractions Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kieran Healy’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Gore and CO2 http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/09/19/crime-and-punishment-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2289 Kieran Healy’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Gore and CO2 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:09:59 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=94#comment-2289 [...] Back in the day, Murray was the sort of person you could have a reasonable disagreement with. But then he went to work for CEI and he went rapidly downhill. Because he had to follow the CEI line, he began to make stupid mistakes, bad arguments and unsupportable smears. His trajectory is a good illustration of the principle that being paid to follow a certain political line regardless of what the evidence says will turn you into a hack. Taking empty pot-shots at Al Gore is just the latest step down the ladder. [...] [...] Back in the day, Murray was the sort of person you could have a reasonable disagreement with. But then he went to work for CEI and he went rapidly downhill. Because he had to follow the CEI line, he began to make stupid mistakes, bad arguments and unsupportable smears. His trajectory is a good illustration of the principle that being paid to follow a certain political line regardless of what the evidence says will turn you into a hack. Taking empty pot-shots at Al Gore is just the latest step down the ladder. [...]

]]> By: Crooked Timber » » Gore and CO2 http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/09/19/crime-and-punishment-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2288 Crooked Timber » » Gore and CO2 Wed, 31 May 2006 21:20:08 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=94#comment-2288 [...] Back in the day, Murray was the sort of person you could have a reasonable disagreement with. But then he went to work for CEI and he went rapidly downhill. Because he had to follow the CEI line, he began to make stupid mistakes, bad arguments and unsupportable smears. His trajectory is a good illustration of the principle that being paid to follow a certain political line regardless of what the evidence says will turn you into a hack. Taking empty pot-shots at Al Gore is just the latest step down the ladder. posted on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 4:18 pm Post a comment [...] [...] Back in the day, Murray was the sort of person you could have a reasonable disagreement with. But then he went to work for CEI and he went rapidly downhill. Because he had to follow the CEI line, he began to make stupid mistakes, bad arguments and unsupportable smears. His trajectory is a good illustration of the principle that being paid to follow a certain political line regardless of what the evidence says will turn you into a hack. Taking empty pot-shots at Al Gore is just the latest step down the ladder. posted on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 4:18 pm Post a comment [...]

]]> By: Crooked Timber http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/09/19/crime-and-punishment-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Crooked Timber Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=94#comment-80 <strong>A New Analysis of Incarceration and Inequality</strong> I’ve written about the intersection of incarceration, race and the labor market several times in the past. In the United States, the remarkable expansion of the prison system over the past thirty years, despite generally falling crime rates, has ... A New Analysis of Incarceration and Inequality

I’ve written about the intersection of incarceration, race and the labor market several times in the past. In the United States, the remarkable expansion of the prison system over the past thirty years, despite generally falling crime rates, has …

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