"This book explores networks and economic design, focusing on the role played by allocation rules (revenue and cost-sharing schemes) in creating and sustaining efficient network solutions. It takes a normative approach, seeking economically efficient network solutions sustained …
"An idea-fueled book that explores the rise of new economic models based on shared resources and collective consumption--and the first articulation of a major socioeconomic phenomenon." Describes a shift from 20th century hyper-consumption to a 21st century age of "collaborativ…
In this new volume from the International Food Policy Research Institute, economists, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists collaborate in the study of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective. S…
Reconsiders the central purpose of social regulation-the abatement or control of risks to society. Recounts the experiences of pioneering agencies that have confronted the risk-control challenge directly, developing operational capacities for specifying risk concentrations, prob…
"Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or programme - often of a social nature. It attempts to answer such questions as whether a proposed project is worthwhile, the optima…
