'WHY COMMIT CRIME?' Economic incentives for criminal behaviour
What can economists contribute to our understanding of why people commit crime and what can be done to discourage, detect and apprehend criminals? In this lecture, Professor Stephen Machin will discuss the importance of economic incentives as a determinant of crime.
The 2017 Public Lecture will be given by Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics.