Disagree. Think of Africa as a non-use public good with a willingness-to-pay
for it's existence value, just as African wildlife. Since quantifying its
value (WTP) is a contingent value problem, you have all the associated
measurement problems such as sampling, selecting the right payment vehicle,
My only trouble with the Warnick theory is whether it holds up under empirical
scrutiny. As a senior career official in the Office of Management and Budget and
two or three cabinet agencies, I witnessed the success and durability of many
tangents including PPB (Program, Planning, and Budgeting), MB
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
to
teenage boys."
PJO, "Parliament of Whores"
Posner's article on economic regulation distinguished it from social regulation,
which is still a separate and largely unexplained phenomenon.
See Jonathan Wiener "On the Political Economy of Global Environmental
Regulation", Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 87, #3 (February 1999).
Alex Tabarrok wr
Denny Ellerman and his colleagues at MIT pretty much have the franchise
on this issue. See "Markets for Clean Air: The US Acid Rain Program",
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Steffen Hentrich wrote:
> Dear Armchairs,
>
> does anybody know a comprehensive analysis of emisson trading
> programms
As a purchaser of university research, we often bargain with the PI on
overhead, who in turn must bargain with their administration.
Rodney Weiher
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> Do universities compete over the overhead they charge? For example, when
> wooing senior faculty, is it ever the case
Just a note on discount rates. The late sociologist Ed Banfield had an entire
theory of poverty, education, crime, and in general, class distinction based
not on income but on discount rates, e.g. higher rates, less education, more
crime, lower-class behavior.
It was very intuitive in terms of a
Ashlie, it would be good if you could let us know when it's published and a web
site.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also, if you are interested in a review of Lomborg's book by a non-economist
> who is right-thinking nonetheless (and an excellent jurist), check out 9th
> Circuit Court of Appeals Ju
You mean He didn't?
Rodney Weiher
Alex Tabarrok wrote:
> Yes, I believe that the majority of the American public supports
> farm subsidies. The rational ignorance assumption fails to explain this
> - it's not like the information that governments spends billions on the
> farmers is hard t
Chris,
Please enter my subscription.
Rodney Weiher
NOAA/Washington, DC
Chris Rasch wrote:
> Thought that some on this list might be interested in this:
>
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> Subject: Announcing IP newsletter
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:20:26 -0400
> From: James Bess
Walt,
I visited some weapons plants in the 1970'. Since then I've had foot problems
and lately haven't felt as alert as I did in those days.. Can I get in on the
compensation?
Rodney Weiher
"Warnick, Walter" wrote:
> Even with data, the analysis will be confounded by immigrants'
> self-selec
I'm not a pro, but what are those brown strips of film that have impressions
like the pictures you had developed that come back from Ritz when you get the
pics?
"Burns, Erik" wrote:
> relatedly, how will this change (or has this changed?) given the fact that
> you can get a fairly good quality d
Armchairers,
You might want to check out the extensive literature on so-called "direct
techniques" such as contingent valuation and conjoint analysis that is used
in environmental economics to elicit quantitative estimates of
willingness-to-pay for non-market, non-use goods. Quantitative results
It seems like what we have is the small markets playing their historic role as
farm clubs to the majors, only now they are in the majors. As a long time
follower of the KC Royals ( ne Athletics), they still play the role of Kansas
City Blues ( a farm club of the Yankees), only now they are humili
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