Bangkok, a World Heritage City

According to Thailand’s Minister of Tourism and Sport, his proposal to develop old cities to be World Heritage sites is good policy. To me, it is also a very interesting idea. Currently, only five places in Thailand are registered as World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO). This is far fewer in number than the many architectural, cultural, and national resource sites found altogether in Thailand.

Legalizing abortion: A pyrrhic victory

No one, except perhaps some criminals, is fond of crimes. Thus, we create many mechanisms to solve them. Steven Levitt, a famous neo-classical economist, has postulated that the crime rate can be lowered by legalizing abortion because legalization would enable women who fear their children will not have a good life to abort their foetuses. Levitt attributes a decrease in teen delinquency (illegal abortions by pregnant teens) in the 1990s to the fact that abortion rates increased in the 70s.