Word: ehrlich
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Acting Vice Provost for University Life George Koval released a statement saying the incident "raises questions about the manner in which the fraternity exercised the privilege of self-governance, of conduct without supervision." Koval's statement added that Penn President Sheldon Hackney and Provost Thomas Ehrlich approved the decision to withdraw recognition...
Were it not for the work of Economist Isaac Ehrlich, the deterrence debate would be entirely one-sided. Using econometric modeling techniques to build a "supply-and-demand" theory of murder, Ehrlich argued in a 1975 paper that capital punishment prevents more murders than do prison sentences. Because of the 3,411 executions carried out from
...Ehrlich speculates, enough potential murderers were discouraged so that some 27,000 victims' lives were saved...
That stunning conclusion drew immediate attacks. Critics, and they are legion, cite a variety of defects: Ehrlich did not compare the effectiveness of the death penalty with that of particular prison terms; his formula does not work if the years between 1965 and 1969 are omitted; and in accounting for the increase in homicides during the '60s, he neglects the possible influences of racial unrest, the Viet Nam War, a loosening of moral standards and increased handgun ownership...
...Ehrlich said that "for reasons having to do with the settlement, I have to say only that there has been a settlement...