A01=Harold Winter
Author_Harold Winter
budget deficits
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cigarette addiction
cost benefit
data analysis
decision making
economics
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government
health administration
infectious disease
inflation
interpretation
law
new paternalism
nonfiction
organ transplants
overeating
politics
product safety
public policy
reasoning
science
statistics
unemployment
Product details
- ISBN 9780226924496
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2013
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ transplants, cigarette addiction, overeating, and product safety. "Trade-Offs" is an introduction to the economic approach to analyzing these controversial public policy issues. Harold Winter provides readers with the analytical tools needed to identify and understand the trade-offs associated with these topics. By considering both the costs and benefits of potential policy solutions, Winter stresses that real-world decision making is best served by an explicit recognition of as many trade-offs as possible. This new edition incorporates recent developments in policy debates, including the rise of "new paternalism," or policies designed to protect people from themselves; alternative ways to increase the supply of organs available for transplant; and economic approaches to controlling infectious disease.
Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University.
