The International Crisis Group (ICG) says some Zimbabweans are in favor of a retirement package, which would be attractive enough for President Robert Mugabe to step down.
Less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction
During the 1990s, the Polish economist Jan Winniecki provided a detailed accounting of what it would take to provide the current rent-holders of the Soviet system to take a lump sum payment equal to the present value of their future income stream from their position of power.
Combine this somewhat stark Coaseian economic "rationalism" with a dose of constitutional liberalism that suggests we forgive and move forward:
"the demand for justice, if given full play, can undermine the fragile political conditions for the powerful development of a liberal constitution. The better part of wisdom is to keep the demand for corrective justice under control while channelling energy toward the construction of an enduring constitutional order"
Ackerman (1992:4)
The question is: Who's doing research into whether removal costs work?
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