will be affordable. In this paper, I present the facts about how much accountability costs. The facts are, fortunately …, highly knowable because costs show up both as expenditures on government budgets and as revenues on companies' (mainly test … makers') accounts. Moreover, it turns out that worrying about measurement error in the cost data is pointless. The costs of …

found no evidence of reductions in treatment costs. However, hospitals with large endowment losses delayed purchases of …

per-hurricane costs, inclusive of unobserved protective spending, by $700,000 per county. Improvements since 2007 reduced … costs by 19%, averaging $5 billion per hurricane. This exceeds the annual budget for all federal weather forecasting …

How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the … showing how a fall in communication costs can increase the rate at which scientific knowledge is exchanged and new ideas and …