News/Special Report: Chicago Booth Releases “The Economics of Prostitution”

News/ Social Trends: Trading Tricks: The Economics of Prostitution, an empirical analysis of the world's oldest profession by the WCW Editorial Team Most crimes involve a victim and a perpetrator. The perpetrator typically looks for his victim and the victim avoids the perpetrator as much as he can. The crime of prostitution, however, is quite different. There are two parties involved but it isn't clear who the perpetrator is and who the victim is. Moreover, it is in the interest of bot...