Motley Blog

I've decided to add a new law related category - adding just a bit more of a 'law and economics' touch to the blog - albeit a diffuse one. I've never studied the subject formally, but I've picked up a bit of the essence of the subject from folks like State Attorney General Rob McKenna and former UW Econ professor Paul Heyne. The 'law and punishment' title is a play on the popular NBC series, 'Law and Order' - consider this is you will as the same theme, but with a bit of Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' thrown in. One more note on Professor Heyne - one of his pet causes was bringing economics education into the social studies curriculums of public high schools. That sounds like a good idea to me, and perhaps a way to get just a touch more math into schools through more than just the standard math class.