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Efficiency In Environmental Regulation - A Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Alternative Approaches

by Ralph A. Luken

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 A management agency --such as a publicly or privately owned electric utility -- must, if it is to be efficient in carrying out its day-to-day tasks, have a means of monitoring its performance to assess the efficiency of its operations and the effectiveness of its planning.
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Risk, Organizations, And Society

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 Growth of the electric industry Electric generating stations and the associated transmission and distribu- tion systems are high ticket items as are the costs of fuel and of operating the industry.
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Dilemma Of Siting A High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository

by D. Easterling e Howard Kunreuther

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 Explores the dilemma of siting a high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) repository. This book examines siting conflicts from different perspectives: political, psychological, and sociological and identifies the fundamental determinants of public opposition to waste disposal facilities as a means of designing better approach to solve the siting dilemma.
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Simulating Workplace Safety Policy

by John D. Leeth e Thomas J. Kniesner

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 Our innovation is piecing together the mosaic of interactions among workers, employers, state government, and the federal government that is numerically realistic in the sense of using economists' current knowl- edge of quantitative connections.
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Contingent Valuation, Transport Safety And The Value Of Life

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 Since the 1970s, economic theory has extended its field of application to non-market goods such as environmental resources and health. The technique of the contingent valuation method (CVM), which has mainly been used to assign a monetary value to environmental goods, is discussed in this text.
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Environmental Economics & The Mining Industry

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 The economic models are criticized for the uncertainty associated with the benefit estimates from reducing greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (COJ, concentrations in the atmosphere as well as estimates of the cost of reducing GHG concentrations and/or emissions.
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Utility Theories: Measurements And Applications

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 The Conference on "Utility: Theories, Measurements, and Applications" met at the Inn at Pasatiempo in Santa Cruz, California, from June II to 15, 1989. The all-star cast of attendees are listed as authors in the Table of Contents of this book (see p. V), except for Soo Hong Chew and Amos Tversky. The purpose of the conference, and of National Science Foundation Grant No. SES-8823012 that supported it, was to confront proponents of new generalized theories of utility with leading decision analysts com mitted to the implementation, in practice, of the more traditional theory that these new theories reject. That traditional model is variously iden tified in this book as expected utility or subjectively expected utility maximization (EU or SEU for short) and variously attributed to von Neumann and Morgenstern or Savage. I had feared that the conference might consist of an acrimonious debate between Olympian normative theorists uninterested in what people actually do and behavioral modelers obsessed with the cognitive illusions and uninterested in helping people to make wise decisions. I was entirely wrong. The conferees, in two dramatic straw votes at the open ing session, unanimously endorsed traditional SEU as the appropriate normative model and unanimously agreed that people don''t act as that model requires. (These votes had a profound impact on my thinking; detail about them and about that impact is located in Chapter 10.
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Valuing The Cost Of Smoking - Assessment Methods, Risk Perception And Policy Options

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 Assessment Methods Risk Perception and Policy Options.
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Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance

by Howard Kunreuther e Paul K. Freeman

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 Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of academic issues, including current systems available for providing compensation and deterrence, use of contracts (including insurance) as substitutes for tort law, limitations of regulatory policy-making by government agencies, pre-conditions for creation of insurance products, and market mechanisms necessary for insurance to be purchased or sold. The purpose of Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance is to highlight the potential role that insurance and performance standards can play in managing environmental risk. Insurance can play a significant role in dealing with one of the most problematic issues facing society today - how to compensate for environmental exposures. This book analyzes the ability of insurance to play a role in managing environmental risk. It begins by outlining the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk: government benefit programs and imposition of involuntary liability using the court system. By so doing, the book describes the comparative advantages of insurance. The book then analyzes the insurability of the risks. Finally, the book applies the insurability analysis to three concrete environmental examples.
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Determining The Value Of Non-Marketed Goods - Economic, Psychological, And Policy Relevant Aspects Of Contingent Valuation Methods

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 Economic Psychological and Policy Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods.
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Risks Of Terrorism

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 The September 11, 2001 terrorism attack on the United States has led government officials to rethink anti-terrorism policies and researchers to assess the implications for the study of risk and uncertainty.
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Stochastic Dominance - Investment Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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 This book is devoted to investment decision-making under uncertainty. The book covers three basic approaches to this process: a) The stochastic dominance approach, developed on the foundation of von Neumann and Morgenstern'' expected utility paradigm. 2 b) The mean-variance approach developed by Markowitz on the foundation of von-Neumann and Morgenstem''s expected utility or simply on the assumption of a utility function based on mean and variance. c) The non-expected utility approach, focusing on prospect theory and its modi fied version, cumulative prospect theory. This theory is based on an experi mental finding that subjects participating in laboratory experiments often violate expected utility maximization: They tend to use · subjective probability beliefs that differ systematically from the objective probabilities and to base their decisions on changes in wealth rather than on total wealth. The above approaches are discussed and compared in this book. W e also discuss cases in which stochastic dominance rules coincide with the mean-variance rule and cases in which contradictions between these two approaches may occur. We then discuss the relationship between stochastic dominance rules and prospect theory, and establish a new investment decision rule which combines the two and which we call prospect stochastic dominance. Although all three approaches are discussed, most of the book is devoted to the stochastic dominance paradigm.
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Decisions, Games And Markets

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 Decisions, Games and Markets is designed to stimulate new developments in decision theory, game theory and general equilibrium theory, as well as in their applications to economics. The book is divided into three parts - Decision Theory, Game Theory, and the Theory of Markets.
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Risk And Medical Decision Making

by Louis Eeckhoudt

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 For people interested in risk management, medical activity represents a stimulating field of study and thought. In Risk and Medical Decision Making, part 1 is developed inside the expected utility (E-U) model and analyses how comorbidity risks affect the well-known "test-treatment" thresholds.
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Environmental Resource Valuation - Applications Of The Contingent Valuation Method In Italy

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 CVM seeks to value environmental and other nonmarket goods and services by asking individuals about their values using survey methods. The second shortcoming of revealed-preference methods is that such methods, when applied to environmental amenities, are likely to be only partial measures of value.
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The Risks Of Terrorism

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 The September 11, 2001 terrorism attack on the United States has led government officials to rethink anti-terrorism policies and researchers to assess the implications for the study of risk and uncertainty.
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Stochastic Dominance - Investment Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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 Discusses investment decision-making under uncertainty. This book covers three basic approaches to this process: the stochastic dominance approach; the mean-variance approach; and the non-expected utility approach, focusing on prospect theory and its modified version, cumulative prospect theory.
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No Free Lunch Why Specified Cocb

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Whispers From The Nether-Realm - An Anthology

by Elenwoke Raymond

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Been There, Done That

by Deborah Bishop-Malamou

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Falling In Love With Love

by B'Lkaar Singh

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Keeping In Time With Your Body Clock - A Guide To Maximising Your Mental And Physical Potential

by D.S. (, Senior Lecturer, Department Of Biological Sciences, University Of Manchester) Minors, G. (, Senior Lecturer, School For Health, University Of Durham) Atkinson e M.E. (, Lecturer In Esol, City College, Manchester) Waterhouse

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 Keeping in time with your body clock provides clear and accessible advice on how to live with, and not against, your body clock. In a clear and accessible style, it explains how the body clock works, how and why it can work against us, and the measures we can take to optimise our feeling of health and wellbeing. An essential book for anyone who wants to better understand their body.
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Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents &C

by A Native Georgian

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Principles Of Cognition, Language And Action - Essays On The Foundations Of A Science Of Psychology

by N. Praetorius

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 This work exposes flaws in the reductionist assumptions about mind and matter of naturalism and constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on cognition, language and action within academic psychology.

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