As the number and cost of environmental regulations have increased over the last thirty years, the regulated community, taxpayers, and policy makers have begun to demand that the benefits of regulations justify their costs. The use of benefit-cost analysis as an integral part of developing new...

Feeding the World Vs. Domestic Agricultural Security

My paper is divided into four parts. The first part contains a brief review of recent changes in the structure of the international economy. The second part briefly reviews the recent experience of Brazil in its relations to the international economy, while the third part discusses Mexico's...

I would like to divide my comments into four parts: (1) a discussion of flexible exchange rates and economic independence; (2) an analysis of macroeconomic policy with flexible exchange rates and an international capital market; (3) an analysis of macroeconomic policy and agriculture; and (4) a...

My comments are divided into five parts: (1) New perspective on the U.S. economy, (2) The Multilateral trade negotiations, (3) Exchange rate policy, (4) Stagnation in productivity growth, (5) Inflation.

My paper is divided in two parts. In the first I will attempt to provide a brief overview of the world food situation, with an emphasis on what has happened during the 1970's - the decade when many observers thought we were headed for a Malthusian crisis. In the second part I will discuss the...