Environmental and natural resource economics deals with the economics of pollution control, policies and economic incentives for dealing with pollution and the basic economic principles for the ...

Some of the most insightful — and now most celebrated — studies of such major social issues as minimum wages and immigration have seized on naturally occurring events. Pioneering efforts by three ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Computational methods are required to solve problems without closed-form solutions in environmental and resource economics. Efficiency, ...

In this paper (my keynote talk from the 2006 ESPE conference), I discuss the recent upsurge in research on the economics of education that has occurred, especially in Europe. I discuss the reasons for ...

MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation. This could help improve the reliability of data analyses in areas like ...

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Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

THE object of the presidential address by Mr. R. F. Harrod to Section F (Economics) on method is threefold: (1) An attempt is made to show the kind of knowledge on which the practical recommendations, ...

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