Why Amazon should 'one-click' Massachusetts

BHI's latest op-ed over at the Boston Business Journal.

September 19: How gun control endangers lives and keeps guns in the hands of the rich; A presentation by John Lott

How gun control endangers lives and keeps guns in the hands of the rich


A presentation by John R. Lott, Jr., PhD President,  Crime Prevention Research Center

September 19, 2017
5:30 p.m.
Suffolk University Law School

120 Tremont Street, Boston

First Floor Function Room

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime. Lott has held research or teaching positions at several academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988-1989. 



He holds a PhD in economics from UCLA. He has published over 100 articles in peer- reviewed academic journals and written eight books, including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics.

This event is co-sponsored by Stephen B. Jeffries and The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research.


For more information, contact 855-244-4550 (ext. 1).

Latest BHI contributions to NewBostonPost.com: Social Impact Bonds, Independence Day

Here are the latest BHI columns over at NewBostonPost.com.

Frank Conte: Social impact bonds for public health programs

Imagine a public health program that reduces the incidences of childhood asthma. Or imagine another one that assigns a home visiting nurse to women pregnant with their first child. Don’t stop there. Imagine another program that identifies children under six who are at-risk of abuse and another one that helps the mentally ill out of restrictive institutional settings and into meaningful community housing.

The more cynical among us who suffer from “compassion burnout” may say that there’s very little imaginative about the public health programs noted above that have been launched in states like California, New York, New Mexico, Oregon and South Carolina. Read more.

David Tuerck:  Independence Day

It is customary this holiday week to remind ourselves why the American colonies declared their independence from Britain some 240 years ago. The Declaration of Independence provides the answer in the form a list of tyrannical acts attributed to King George III. Among their grievances, the authors cited the “swarms of Officers” that the King sent out to harass and steal from them, the creation of “arbitrary government” for the purpose of imposing “absolute rule” and the imposition of taxes without their consent. “A Prince” they said, “whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Read more.