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Perverse Incentives: Sex Work and the Law
How should the law treat prostitution and related activities? Experts debate sex work legalization, criminalization, and other approaches.
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Treating Sex Work as Work
Retired call girl Maggie McNeill argues that sex work should be legalized; criminalization, not prostitution, creates violence and adds risk.
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Inflation is a Regressive Tax
Inflating away our deficits is unlikely, argues Jerry L. Jordan; this is fortunate, he says, because of the fundamental unfairness of inflation.
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Central Banks Can and Do Hit Inflation Targets
Scott Sumner offers evidence that his preferred policy of nominal GDP targeting is workable.
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Prostitution as a Legal Institution
Prof. Ronald Weitzer argues that prostitution should be treated as a legal commercial transaction, with some minimal regulation for safety and order.
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Prostitution Cannot Be Squared with Human Rights or the Equality of Women
Dianne Post argues that prostitution is a form of exploitation, and that the only proper response is to abolish it.
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Prostitution is Exploitation
Steven Wagner argues that prostitutes are not acting voluntarily and thus should not be considered workers at all. They are slaves.
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Responses to Weitzer, Post, and Wagner: Don’t Be Swayed by Exaggerated Claims
Maggie McNeill debunks shoddy research about sex work and argues that criminalization itself is to blame for the vast majority of remaining problems.