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Reforming Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis

Mark Kleiman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Regulation, Benefit Cost Analysis, Policy Analysis, Bayesian Decision Making, Distribution, Business News
Mark Kleiman

The benefit-cost analysis practiced in the regulatory process - what I teach my students to call "forensic" benefit-cost - differs in three ways from ideal, or armchair, benefit-cost.

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Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home

Read More: U.S. Economy, Credit Cards, Consumerism, Financial Meltdown, Madoff, Tv, Faustian Bargain, Morality, Hector Berlioz, Spirituality, Distribution, Inherent Goodwill, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan, Mephistopheles, Home News
Stephen Mo Hanan

Recently in New York I went to a preview performance of a rarely staged piece of music theater called "The Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz. In ...

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Is the Long Tail Shorter Than We Thought?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Longtail, Newmedia, Art, Economics, Anderson, Distribution, Digital, Web, Media, Music, Obscure Culture, New Media, Netflix, zip.ca, Long Tail Theory, Media News
Hugh McGuire

If everyone can cheaply produce media -- music, text, video, sound, and photos -- then much of it is going to be of little interest to most of us.

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