drumroll, please... it's time to start nominating people for the Nobel Prize in economics....
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davies, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:29 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PEN-L:31684] RE: RE: real economics
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> check out the actual paper, it's a beaut. No use of OLS regression to
> demonstrate "analytical rigour", but two classic traits of the genre:
>
> 1) "the best available science" is defined as the contents of Bjorn
> Lomberg's book. I gave up counting at the 30th citation of Lomborg.
>
> 2) the argument appears to be that environmentalists are
> interested in the
> environment, so the environment is one of their interests, so they're
> interested in one of their interests, so they're
> self-interested, so they're
> not *really* interested in the environment.
>
> I love George Mason University.
>
> dd
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Devine, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 30 October 2002 16:08
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PEN-L:31683] RE: real economics
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>
>
> so, if an environmentalist group doesn't follow a hard-core
> neoclassical
> perspective (points 1, 2, & 3 below), it's a "special
> interest group"?
>
> do the George Mason University Law School and Economics
> Department analyze
> themselves in these terms? are they rent-seeking?
>
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> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> > This article provides a first effort at testing the
> > implications of public interest versus private interest models
> > of environmental interest groups. In particular, it specifies
> > three testable implications of a public interest model of the
> > activities of environmental interest groups: (1) a desire to
> > base policy on the best-available science; (2) a willingness to
> > engage in deliberation and compromise to balance environmental
> > protection against other compelling social and economic
> > interests; and, (3) a willingness to consider alternative
> > regulatory strategies that can deliver environmental protection
> > at lower-cost than traditional command-and-control regulation.
> > On all three counts, it is found that the public-interest or
> > "civic republican" explanation for the activities of
> > environmental interest groups fails to convincingly describe
> > their behavior. On the other hand, the evidence on each of these
> > three tests is consistent with a self-interested model of the
> > behavior of environmental interest-groups. Their activities can
> > be understood as being identical to those of any other interest
> > group - namely, the desire to use the coercive power of
> > government to subsidize their personal desires for greater
> > environmental protection and to redistribute wealth and power to
> > themselves.
>
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