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  • Negotiating Values

    Implementing Change in the Allocation of Transplant Organs

    by David L. Weimer ...
    In the United States stakeholders make rules for the allocation of deceased-donor transplant organs. More than 110,000 Americans are currently awaiting transplants and more than 1,200 die annually before they get transplants; more than 1,700 leave the waiting list annually because they've become too sick to receive transplants. Contributing to better organ transplantation policy is thus socially ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy "bible," Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in a thoroughly revised seventh edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, and goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Dog Economics

    Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Archaeologists, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists study the origins of our relationship with dogs and how it has evolved over time. Sociologists and legal scholars study the roles of dogs in the modern family. Veterinarian researchers address the relationship in the context of professional practice, yet economists have produced scant scholarship on the relationship between humans and ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • Behavioral Economics for Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Benefit Validity When Sovereign Consumers Seem to Make Mistakes

    by David L. Weimer ...
    How should policy analysts assess 'benefit validity' when behavioral anomalies appear relevant? David L. Weimer provides thoughtful answers through practical guidelines. Behavioral economists have identified a number of situations in which people appear not to behave according to the neoclassical assumptions underpinning welfare economics and its application to the assessment of the efficiency of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Policy Analysis in the United States

    by Michael O'Hare, Steven R. Smith, Erik Godwin, Michael Holland, Philip Joyce, Rebecca A. Maynard, B. Guy Peters, Nadia Rubaii, Andrew Rich, Maxwell McCombs, Annelise Russell, Scott H Ainsworth, Raymond J La Raja, Zachary Albert, William G Jacoby, Saundra K Schneider, Julia Lane, Kuang-Ting Tai, Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, David Swindell, Karen Mossberger, Gary VanLandingham, Laurence E Lynn, Frank Fischer, Beryl Radin, David L Weimer ...
    Series Book 12 - International Library of Policy Analysis
    Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters.This volume represents an indispensable companion to other volumes in the International Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare cross ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Policy Analysis and Economics

    Developments, Tensions, Prospects

    Edited by David L. Weimer ...
    Series Book 23 - Recent Economic Thought
    Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework for valuing the impacts of policies in terms of efficiency and simple notions of equity. With the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Beauty Pays

    Why Attractive People Are More Successful

    by Daniel S. Hamermesh ...
    How beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spousesMost of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty ... Read more

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  • Behavioural Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michelle Baddeley ...
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    Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals. Economists also assume that we're doing the very best we can possibly do - not only for today, but over our whole lifetimes too. But increasingly the ... Read more

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  • Copycats & Contrarians

    Why We Follow Others . . . and When We Don't

    by Michelle Baddeley ...
    "Why we run with—or avoid—the crowd, and why it matters, from choosing a restaurant in a tourist trap to believing fake news. I learned a lot" (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist).Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate ... Read more

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  • Behavioural Economics And Policy Design: Examples From Singapore

    by Donald Low ...
    Analysts of government have frequently noted how Singapore's policies are grounded in rigorous economics thinking. Policies are designed to be economically efficient even if they are not always popular. This pioneering book takes a different approach. It aims to demonstrate how successful policies in Singapore have integrated conventional economic principles with insights from the emerging field ... Read more

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