The ethical poverty of cost-benefit methods: autonomy, efficiency and public policy choice

Article Abstract:

Public policy must first be based on ethical standards of obligation, equality, cooperation and distribution before considerations of efficiency. Cost-benefit methods treat individuals as mere consumers which reduces the system into one based on comsumption when the moral issue might be based on obligation and protection. Thus, public choice must be made according to moral principles such as autonomy, equality and benevolence with efficiency considered only as the process basis.

Evaluation, Cost benefit analysis, Cost (Economics), Costs (Economics)

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Claiming races, broiler contracts, heresthetics, and habits: ten concepts for policy design

Article Abstract:

Ten concepts for institutional design have been formulated with the aim to help analysts create policy alternatives by providing various perspectives on problem solving. The concepts are derived from three intellectual sources. Theses are the economics of organization, heresthetics and behavioral perspective. From these sources, the concepts can be seen as a combination of generic policies that rule various behavior and converts them into effective institutional arrangements.

Influence, Business enterprises, Social sciences

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Contending discourses in the electric and magnetic fields controversy: the social construction of EMF risk as a public problem

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The paper examines the various ways the adverse health effect of electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) has been socially constructed through distinctive forms of public discourse and analyzes the contentious issues among different forms. The public discourses differ because of the ambiguity surrounding the parameters of their forms.

Social policy, Criticism and interpretation, Health risk assessment

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