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00-05 "Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."
No full textMarket based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world's environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an "efficient" allocation of society's resources. As a result, many contemporary policymakers advocate rolling back regulations in order to let the market protect the environment. There is a fundamental distinction between the use of the market as a tool to help achieve society's goals, and as a blueprint for society's goals; the market is a reasonable policy tool but not a reasonable blueprint. The market as blueprint fails because there are significant public purposes that cannot be achieved by prices and markets alone. Five major arguments show that getting the prices right is often a narrow or meaningless objective; society may intentionally and appropriately choose to "get the prices wrong" in order to pursue more important goals.
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”In God We Trust” on the Nation’s Coins and Currency and as the National Motto: History and Constitutionality
No full textThis report discusses the history of the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on the national currency, and the constitutional legality of the practice
05-05 "Teaching Ecological and Feminist Economics in the Principles Course"
No full textIt can be difficult to incorporate ecological and feminist concerns into introductory courses based on neoclassical analysis. We have faced these issues head-on as we have worked on writing introductory economics textbooks, Microeconomics in Context (Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman and Weisskopf, 2005) and Macroeconomics in Context (in progress). In this essay, we will describe how we have modified the introductory curriculum to encompass these perspectives.
00-03 "Trade Liberalization and Pollution Intensive Industries in Developing Countries: A Partial Equilibrium Approach."
No full textEconomic theory suggests that liberalization of trade between countries with differing levels of environmental protection could lead pollution-intensive industry to concentrate in the nations where regulations are lax. This effect, often referred to as the "pollution haven" hypothesis, is much discussed in theory, but finds only ambiguous support in empirical research to date. Methodologies used for research on trade and environment differ widely; many are difficult to apply to practical policy questions. We develop a simple, partial equilibrium model explicitly designed to analyze the effects of a change in trade policy. Our model analyzes the relative concentrations of "clean" and "dirty" industries in two nations or regions, before and after the policy change. While lacking the theoretical rigor and mathematical intricacy of other modeling methods, our approach has the advantages of transparency and accessibility to a broad range of analysts and policy makers.
Organizaciones de la sociedad civil, control ciudadano e incidencia política en México :\ua0seis casos para entender una práctica heterogénea emergente (2005-2009) /
No full text\ua0tesis que para obtener el grado de Doctor en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, presenta Almudena Ocejo Rojo ; asesor Alicia Ziccardi, Ernesto Isunza Vera, John M. Ackerman. 353 páginas :\ua0diagramas. Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales\ua0UNAM, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales,\ua0201
The long QT syndrome: a transatlantic clinical approach to diagnosis and therapy
No full textThe mind-boggling progress in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the long QT syndrome (LQTS) has been the subject of many articles and reviews. Still, when it comes to the management of the patients affected by this life-threatening disorder, too many errors still take place, both in the diagnostic process and in the therapeutic choices. The price of these errors is paid by the patients and their families. This review is not directed to the relatively small number of LQTS experts who know what to do. It does not deal with genetics, with epidemiology, or with the well-known clinical manifestations. We have focused solely on the approach to diagnosis and therapy and we have directed this review to the average clinical cardiologist who, in his/her practice, sees occasionally patients affected or suspected to be affected by LQTS; the cardiologist who may know enough to manage them but not enough to be completely confident on his/her most critical choices. We have provided our personal views without making any attempt to blend differences whenever present. On most issues we agree fully but where we do not, we make it clear to the reader by indicating who is thinking what. The result may be unconventional, but it mirrors the challenges, often severe, that we all face in managing and protecting these patients from sudden death while also helping them live and thrive despite their diagnosis. We trust that this unabashed presentation of our clinical approach will be useful for both cardiologists and patients
Marriage record of Puig, Manuel and Ackerman, Melanie
No full textMarriage license for Manuel Puig and Melanie Ackerman. Adolf M. Goldstein was the Notary Public
"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"
No full textrecycling, pollution, environment, environmental discrimination, environmental policy
SupplementalMaterials_PSPB_Revised – Supplemental material for The Infectiousness of Crowds: Crowding Experiences Are Amplified by Pathogen Threats
No full textSupplemental material, SupplementalMaterials_PSPB_Revised for The Infectiousness of Crowds: Crowding Experiences Are Amplified by Pathogen Threats by Iris M. Wang and Joshua M. Ackerman in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
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