This chapter is an introduction to the series Handbooks in Economics. The aim of the Handbooks in Economics series is to produce Handbooks for various branches of economics, each of which is a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for use by professional researchers and advanced...

As we understand it, the D.C. Circuit did not allow the EPA to consider the costs of complying with ozone and PM NAAQS. As we further understand it, this legal ruling can be overturned only by this Court. As economists, we believe that the D.C. Circuit's ruling not allowing the EPA to consider...

This paper articulates and applies frameworks for examining whether consumption is excessive. We consider two criteria for the possible excessiveness (or insufficiency) of current consumption. One is an intertemporal utility-maximization criterion: actual current consumption is deemed excessive...

Les sciences de la politique aux États-Unis, par H. D. Lasswell.--La personne humaine, sujet et objet des sciences sociales, par E. R. Hilgard et D. Lerner.--L'étude du groupe élémentaire, par E. A. Shils.--L'étude du caractère national, par M. Mead--Le concept de culture, par C....