Why have burglaries declined?
» Posted by Martin Weil on March 20, 2008
The short answer: low wages in China.
That at least according to economist Tyler Cowen, who says that the falling cost of most consumer items and their increasingly short product life cycle mean that stolen goods are not worth what they once were.

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