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Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

Can Hitchcock be Saved from Hitchcock Studies?

A s Robert Kapsis ha.s noted in Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation, Alfred Hitchcock alway.s courted the press. From the early yeans in England working for Michael Balcon at Ciainsborough to his final years in Hollywood working for Lew Wasserman at Universal, Hitchcock attempted to produce and direct critical response to himself and to his work. One of Hitchcock's favorite screenwriters, Cha...

Earth Observation for Earthquake Disaster Monitoring and Assessment

Can Game Theory Be Saved? Can Game Theory Be Saved?

Game-theoretic analysis is a well-established part of the toolkit of economic analysis. In crucial respects, however, game theory has failed to deliver on its original promise of generating sharp predictions of behavior in situations where neoclassical microeconomics has little to say. Experience has shown that in most situations, it is possible to tell a game-theoretic story to …t almost any p...

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