‘Some Birds Aren’t Meant to be Caged’
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
–Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law, by Paul and Sarah Robinson
–Caged Heat (There’s more than one of these???)
–German phrase for “Attaining freedom once you reach a city”
–Alex Tabarrok on street safety policy
–Andersonville prisoner of war camp
–Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
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