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on Economic Activity, Vol. 3 (1973). See, for example, William D. Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer, Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming ( MIT Press, 2000). 4-, EFTA00694529 William D. Nordhaus, "A Review of the `Stem Review on the Economics of Climate Change,' Journal of Economic Literature,

scribed how ordinary Syrians with no links to the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime. The world already knows that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape, and torture aga

o the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime. The world already knows that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape, and torture against his own citizens. What is far less well known, a

nsider whether a transgression was committed (did Assad use chemical weapons?), rather than focus- ing en

not always true for continuous variables. Consider the longstanding norm against the use of chemical weapons. This norm recently made headlines when Bashar al-Assad was alleged to have used chemical weapons to kill about a thousand Syrian civilians, outraging world leaders who had HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015514 --- PAG

We say that the norm against chemical weapons is a categorical norm because those who abide by it consider whether a transgression was committed (did Assad use chemical weapons?), rather than focus- ing entirely on how much harm was done (how many civilians did Assad kill?). Other norms are similarly cat

Killing, letting die, and the trolley problem. The Monist, 59(2), 204-217. Tirole, J. (1988). The theory of industrial organization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Trivers, R. (2011). The folly of fools: The logic of deceit and self-deception in human life. New York: Basic Books. Trivers, R. L. (1971). The ev

it wholesale as in drone assassinations. Getting Assad out of the way in Syria will not solve the bitter

n Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq, decapitating the bad guys hasn't worked very well even when we go at it wholesale as in drone assassinations. Getting Assad out of the way in Syria will not solve the bitter Sunni/Shia/Kurdish/secular feuding there. The American attempts to do good, if that is even the cor

sociates may require enforcement of norms by third parties. In P. J. Richerson & M. Christiansen (Eds.), CulturalEvolution (pp. 45-60). Cambridge MA: MIT Press. pjr>> IF THIS IS TRUE-THAT "HUMAN COOPERATION AMONG KIN" and also AMONG "CLOSE ASSOCIATES" -"MAY REQUIRE ENFORCEMENT OF NORMS BY THIRD PARTIES", THE