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A prohibition is a government decree against the production and exchange of a good or service. Recent studies on prohibitions, for a variety of goods and services, such as drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, suggest that prohibitions impose heavy costs and are extremely difficult to enforce.
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Snow, N.A. (2019). Prohibition. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_625
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