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About wealth dependent fines
01/10/10
Here is a message about a US$ 290 speed fine of a Swiss driver. Judges at the cantonal court in St. Gallen, in eastern Switzerland, based the record-breaking fine on the speeder's estimated wealth of over $20 million.
Swiss court fines speeding millionaire $290,000, Jan. 7, 2010
And here is an assessment of wealth dependent fines by Harvard's G. Mankiw:
XML Feeds- Expertenkommission "Too big to fail"; Schlussbericht
- TOO BIG TO FAIL UND DIE WIEDERHERSTELLUNG DER MARKTORDNUNG, Boris Zürcher, Avenir Suisse
