Papers
Most of the
following papers are fairly readable for students in beginning
level
economics courses. The first two papers describe a mechanism for
improving the incentives facing politicians, allowing the power to
control
the budget to be returned to voters. These papers show a (very
non-extreme)
example of how one might convey the same idea in quite different ways
for
different audiences. The first is written to be read by "real
people"
like you, while the second version is written for economists.
Indeed,
the first so-called "easy read" version isn't as much fun to read as I
would like if I were putting it in a newspaper; and the more formal
paper
is not really all that technically difficult, in any event--which is
why
it's here. Reading both versions is, however, somewhat
instructive.
Papers 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are contributions to environmental economics
and are
quite readable, although paper 6 (on the WTA-WTP disparity) has some
fairly
difficult graphs and will require intermediate microeconomics to be
understandable.
A more technical version of paper 3 is available from me upon
request.
Paper 8 is what I take to be an interesting treatment of the issue of
development,
growth and the business cycle, while paper 9 examines life
expectancy. Paper 10 extends paper 4 to a larger spatial
context. Paper 11 is a review of a book that will be of interest
to environmentalists, and that should be cautionary to
economists.
The next to last paper is a guide I have prepared, primarily for
graduate
students, that is aimed at clarifying "how to publish." The final
paper, on theology, has a self-explanatory title and will not "be for
everyone,"
though I find it convincing in an area where I was never convinced
before:
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