O fracasso da "guerra contra drogas"

The Economics Behind the U.S. Government's Unwinnable War on Drugs

Benjamin Powell*

The late Nobel Laureate James Buchanan was known to say, "Economics puts limits on people's utopias." Unfortunately, the advocates of the U.S. government's war on drugs have failed to appreciate the economics underlying the drug war that makes their utopian vision impossible to achieve through drug prohibition.
Figure 1 illustrates the effect of a supply-side drug war on an inelastic demand.
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