The true costs of US agricultural dumping

Agricultural Terrorism The US Perspective

Cyclical Dumping and US Antidumping Protection: 1980-2001

This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government’s decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I estimate a joint model of filing decisions by the US industry and antidumping decisions by the US govern...

The costs of a bullet--the true cost of labour.

After discussion on a viable intervention strategy, we felt that something ‘cool’ and innovative was called for. Step forward ‘Mr Butt’, a Facebook character based on a fictional 14year-old boy. This champion of quitting smoking is everyone’s pal and can be added as a friend on this vastly popular networking tool. Mr Butt’s group on Facebook, ‘Mr Butt wants everyone to quit smoking’, is a sourc...

Controlling the costs of US health care.

With US health expenditure rising past 16% of the country's total economic output—a level almost 50% higher than in any other country—politicians and business executives are scrambling to avoid the bills for America's ragged patchwork of public and private health systems. Opinion polls indicate that health-care bills are now of greater concern to the US public than terrorism, illegal immigratio...

What are the true costs of major trauma?

BACKGROUND This economic evaluation reports the results of a detailed study of the cost of major trauma treated at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Australia. METHODS A bottom-up approach was used to collect and aggregate the direct and indirect costs generated by a sample of 30 inpatients treated for major trauma at PAH in 2004. Major trauma was defined as an admission for Multiple Signifi...