What is pollution? According to Peter H. Aranson, “Public policy regards as pollution any man-made or naturally occurring substance (for example, smoke or sewage) or condition (for exam- ple, noise, heat, or radiation) that is believed to threaten human health or economic welfare...

What is pollution? According to Peter H. Aranson, “Public policy regards as pollution any man-made or naturally occurring substance (for example, smoke or sewage) or condition (for exam- ple, noise, heat, or radiation) that is believed to threaten human health or economic welfare...

In this paper we challenge the traditional distinction between public goods and private goods. Economists use a definition of public goods that rests on the inherent properties of the good itself. Referring to criteria such as non-rivalness and non-excludability, they assert that the distinction...

Our paper reviews Marxist, pluralist and conservative theories of the state under capitalism from the standpoint of evidence on United States federal taxing and spending during the 1980s. The deficit panic is a product of the political stratum that defines the public interest as actions opposed...

Rational choice theories could be improved, their scope broadened, and their explanations made more powerful by asking not only `How do people go about getting what they know they want?' but also `Why do people want what they want in the first place?'. The advantages of combining a theory of...

This paper is an exploratory attempt to view the role that social experiments in general, and the income maintenance experiments and work/welfare demonstrations in particular, have played in the policy process through the lens provided by the knowledge ...