Zoning fee as a public levy

Mutations as Levy flights

Data on single-nucleotide polymorphisms and large chromosomal rearrangements, coming from a long time evolution experiment with Escherichia Coli, are analyzed in order to argue that mutations along a cell lineage can be modeled as Levy flights in an abstract mutation space. These Levy flights have two components: random single-base substitutions and large DNA rearrangements. The data provide es...

Pursuing health equity: zoning codes and public health.

journal of law, medicine & ethics Health equity can be defined as the absence of disadvantage to individuals and communities in health outcomes, access to health care, and quality of health care regardless of one’s race, gender, nationality, age, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status.1 Health equity concerns those disparities in public health that can be traced to unequal, systemic econ...

Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning∗

In speculating that local public goods could be efficiently provided, Tiebout (1956) envisioned head taxes which would both finance public goods and price access to them. In practice, head taxes are not available, potentially leading to distortions. Hamilton (1975, 1976) responded that zoning can mimic a head tax by creating a price (or “admission ticket”) at the border. While the debate over t...

Zoning as a Means of Controlling Commercial Strip Development

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...