A very good website by a neo-marxist on environmental racism
is the one by Andrew Szasz. No relation to Thomas Szasz, I hope.
He has some papers on native Americans and Toxics. And, I remember
a Monthly Review Press book in the late 70's title, "W'aschu"
(???) on Resource Exploitation and Indi
Reading Rob's sentence
Aren't many African
political economies undemocratic and internally fractured polities, such that
the faction/tribe/etc in government can shift the pollutants to the
environments of under-represented factions/tribes/etc?
it strikes me that just exac
: From Brad
De Long
Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>
> That's interesting as far as matching policies to
> popular preferences, but does it tell me
> how to vote if I'm dedicated to the common good?
>
If I weren't tired and didn't have errands to run, I'd try to g
Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>
> That's interesting as far as matching policies to
> popular preferences, but does it tell me
> how to vote if I'm dedicated to the common good?
>
If I weren't tired and didn't have errands to run, I'd try to give a
substantive commentary here, but I am tired and must
There actually are some interesting counter-analytical frameworks that have
been developed by socio-democratic type Euro-health planners. These amount
to using surveys to elicit population-based valuation on how different
programmes should be traded-off against each-other, including the
incorpora
> All well-taken. The political problem, as I see it, is that
> critics of these people have no counter-science, theory, or
> evidence. They are reduced to emotionalism. The best they
> can do is ask people like me to find errors in the other
> side's arguments. But all I can do is find err
Subject: [PEN-L:16004] RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: From Brad De Long
I think this discussion would benefit by being related to very relevant
concrete political events, i.e., the appointment of John Graham, director of
the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, to deputy director (or some such
title) o
PEN-L:16004] RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: From Brad De Long
I think this discussion would benefit by being related to very relevant
concrete political events, i.e., the appointment of John Graham, director of
the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, to deputy director (or some such
title) of the Office of
> >So what's the limit on this? What keeps you from descending to the
> >horrific Summers/Pritchett level, where the logic of dumping toxic
waste
> >in Africa is "impeccable"?
>
> in the limit, cost-benefit analysis would decide that Lawrence
Summers is
> worth more (in terms of discounted expect
I think this discussion would benefit by being related to very relevant
concrete political events, i.e., the appointment of John Graham, director of
the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, to deputy director (or some such
title) of the Office of Management and Budget for regulatory affairs.
By all
Would this be in terms of a BMI-adjusted analysis.
>>in the limit, cost-benefit analysis would decide that Lawrence Summers is
>>worth more (in terms of discounted expected future real incomes, of
course)
>>than say, Brad deLong, so that it would be beneficial -- if not efficient
>>-- to save
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