Escaping household chaos, a car-bound Jonah talks prisons with Brown University’s David Skarbek. Bolivian jails and Soviet gulags are just two choices in this long game of Where’d-You-Rather: Incarceration Edition. Skarbek takes us through the highlights of his upcoming book and touches on the delicate subject of policing.

Show Notes:

-Skarbeck’s upcoming book: The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

-Skarbek on EconTalk

-Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law, by Paul and Sarah Robinson

-Chained Heat

-Caged Heat (There’s more than one of these???)

-Jonah on the CHAZ

-Rule of clans

-German phrase for “Attaining freedom once you reach a city”

-Alex Tabarrok on street safety policy

-1982 “Broken Windows” essay

-Vin Cannato on The Remnant

-Andersonville prisoner of war camp

-Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

-Emma Goldman, anarchist

-Elinor Ostrom, economist

-Gabi.com/remnant

-ExpressVPN.com/remnant for 3 months free with a year plan

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