The Market for Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs

By G. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy, Michael Grossman. Journal of Political Economy, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The law and economics of international sex slavery: prostitution laws and trafficking for sexual exploitation (2013, background): “By prohibiting the market for a good the government raises the cost for suppliers and thus raises the price and lowers the quantity consumed (Becker et al. 2006).”
• Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment (2014, background): “…forms of illicit drug, most notably cannabis.1 Both approaches have been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds [Glaeser and Shleifer 2001, Becker et al. 2006]: the historically tough US policy stance is estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars annually, and there remain an…”