If alcohol has substitutes, changes in its relative price can encourage the production and consumption of other illicit and harmful drugs. This paper considers if county-level bans on the sale of alcohol in the state of Mississippi encourage the production and consumption of crystal...

Quality-of-life rankings could induce economic development and planning policy makers into wastefully committing too many resources into attracting human and physical capital if they are based on a methodology that is atheoretical and biased in its approach to accounting for what individuals...