Prohibition in Kansas

The Economics of Prohibition The Economics of Prohibition

Did prohibition really work? Alcohol prohibition as a public health innovation.

The conventional view that National Prohibition failed rests upon an historically flimsy base. The successful campaign to enact National Prohibition was the fruit of a century-long temperance campaign, experience of which led prohibitionists to conclude that a nationwide ban on alcohol was the most promising of the many strategies tried thus far. A sharp rise in consumption during the early 20t...

Alcohol Prohibition and Addictive Consumption in India

This paper examines the effects of alcohol prohibition on the consumption of alcohol and other addictive goods. Using a series of household expenditure surveys for India, it finds that alcohol prohibition had differential effects on alcohol consumption by alcohol type and sector. In particular prohibition reduced consumption of arrack, IMFL, and beer in both urban and rural sectors, although it...

A Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons

The campaign for prohibition in Victorian England

Boehme and Weigel under Germany, Comenius under Czecho-Slowakia. Part II, I is works about alchemy arranged by authors, part II, 2 by subjects. Certain advantages of the new grouping are undeniable and in any case the index of names provides essential help. No opportunity seems to have been taken in facilitating the finding ofanonymous items as against previous bibliographies. For example there...