scholarly journals Review: Fugitive Industry: The Economics and Politics of Deindustrialization, the New Reality of Municipal Finance: The Rise and Fall of the Intergovernmental City, Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, the Politics of Mental Health, Regional Development. Problems and Policies in Eastern and Western Europe, Housing Economics: An Applied Approach, Environmental Policy under Reagan's Executive Order: The Role of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Comparative Resource Allocation: Politics, Performance and Policy Priorities, the Price of Industrial Labor: The Role of Wages in Business Cycles and Economic Growth, Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities, Nuclear Power: Siting and Safety

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-386
Author(s):  
R Martin ◽  
J R Gist ◽  
M P Jackson ◽  
C Philo ◽  
P Sjøholt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Industrial Labor ◽  
Benefit Cost

Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit–Cost Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
James K. Hammitt
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
Alternative Evaluation ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Net Benefits ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Abstract Benefit–cost analysis (BCA) is often viewed as measuring the efficiency of a policy independent of the distribution of its consequences. The role of distributional effects on policy choice is disputed; either: (a) the policy that maximizes net benefits should be selected and distributional concerns should be addressed through other measures, such as tax and transfer programs or (b) BCA should be supplemented with distributional analysis and decision-makers should weigh efficiency and distribution in policy choice. The separation of efficiency and distribution is misleading. The measure of efficiency depends on the numéraire chosen for the analysis, whether monetary values or some other good (unless individuals have the same rates of substitution between them). The choice of numéraire is not neutral; it can affect the ranking of policies by calculated net benefits. Alternative evaluation methods, such as BCA using a different numéraire, weighted BCA, or a social welfare function (SWF), may better integrate concerns about distribution and efficiency. The most appropriate numéraire, distributional weights, or SWFs cannot be measured or statistically estimated; it is a normative choice.

Where Do New Ideas (About Class) Come From?

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
American Labor

In my comment I raise two main questions about the Eley/Nield essay. First, I express some doubts about whether the issues discussed in their essay can be unproblematically transposed to historiographical debates in areas beyond Western Europe and North America. Certain themes, such as the need to reemphasize the political, are hardly pressing given the continual emphasis on politics and the state in Latin American labor history. Closely related to this, I question whether the state of gender studies within labor history can be used, in the way these authors seem to be doing, as a barometer of the sophistication and vitality of labor and working-class history. Despite recognizing the tremendous contribution of gendered approaches to labor history, I express doubts about its ability to help us rethink the category of class, and even express some concern that it might occlude careful consideration of class identities. Instead, pointing to two pathbreaking works in Latin American labor history, I argue that the types of questions we ask about class, and primarily about class, can provide the key to innovative scholarship about workers even if questions such as gender or ethnicity go unexamined. Finally, I point out that class will only be a vital category of analysis if it is recognized not simply as “useful,” but as forming a basis for genuinely creative and innovative historical studies.

Housing, The State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities.

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Franklin D. Wilson ◽  
Alan Gilbert ◽  
Peter M. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Poor ◽  
American Cities

scholarly journals The Urban Worlds of Latin and Anglo America: PrefatoryThoughts

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Introductory Paper

This introductory paper examines some of the main questions raised by the papers presented to the urbanization symposium in Vancouver. Comparisons between the Latin American urban experience and that of the United States and Canada revealed basic contrasts in spite of some broad hemispheric similarities. Differences were particularly apparent in the residual influence of native society on later European settlement, in the role of the state versus private commerce in growth and development, and in the differing class structures.

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