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25 Oct 2016, 6:46 am by Daniel Shaviro
In the public economics literature, often the only reason for mitigating high-end inequality is the declining marginal utility. [read post]
23 Oct 2016, 10:52 am by Jon Gelman
The fragmented century old social insurance system is complex and expensive to operate and is now confronted with security measures that are more time consuming, cumbersome and expense to implement. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 6:52 am by Andrew Kent, Julian Davis Mortenson
The Civil War period saw a dramatically increased tendency to seek authorization in the century-old terms of the Constitution. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 7:15 am by EEM
Events:Conference: Global Histories of Refugees in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Melbourne, 6-8 October 2016 [info]Seminar series: Border Crisis, Open Borders, No Border: Radical Perspectives in Migration Studies, Oxford, 12 October-30 November 2016 [info]Publications:Actors and Stakeholder Involvement in Crisis Mitigation, MICIC Research Brief (ICMPD, Sept. 2016) [text]The Arts and Humanities: Tackling the Challenges of Mass Displacement (openDemocracy, Oct. 2016)… [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 4:51 am by J. Dana Stuster
State Department has proved increasingly willing to deal with Syrians with real power on the ground,” Sam Heller, a fellow at the Century Foundation, writes. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 9:26 am by Michael Grossman
To their credit, many government highway agencies have done their best, constantly incorporating new guardrail technology in an attempt to mitigate the potential spearing hazard. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 6:32 am by Dan Ernst
Much of popular and academic debate revolves around two competing approaches to these fundamental questions: laissez-faire defenses of self-correcting and welfare-enhancing markets on the one hand, and managerialist turns to the role of insulated, expert regulation in mitigating risks and promoting growth on the other. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 10:25 am by Mike Madison
(Pittsburgh also had other dailies during the 20th century, including the Sun-Telegraph, but for practical purposes the Press and the Post-Gazette were the two papers standing as the JOA started operations.) [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 8:30 am by Michael Grossman
Given that most commerce was local and conducted face-to-face, this clunky system worked relatively well until the late 19th century. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 8:12 am by scottgaille
Democrats call for America to be “be running entirely on clean energy by mid-century,” proposing carbon taxes to reach that goal. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 2:19 pm by Michael Grossman
It has been employed extensively in devices since the turn of the century. [read post]
9 Sep 2016, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
The Civil War period, by contrast, saw a dramatically increased tendency for the executive branch to respond by seeking authorization in the century-old terms of the Constitution. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 12:41 pm by Phillips & Associates
The term “cat’s paw” comes from “The Monkey and the Cat,” a fable credited to Aesop and later written as a poem by the 17th-century French poet Jean de La Fontaine. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 12:41 pm by Phillips & Associates
The term “cat’s paw” comes from “The Monkey and the Cat,” a fable credited to Aesop and later written as a poem by the 17th-century French poet Jean de La Fontaine. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 12:21 pm by Patrick McMahon
These workers have a duty to mitigate their earnings losses in the form of job searching efforts. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 5:10 pm by Ilya Somin
Those with greater knowledge could instead be given extra votes (as first advocated by John Stuart Mill in the nineteenth century). [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
However, the prerogative of mercy served a vital role during this period in mitigating the effects of capital punishment. [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 12:10 pm by Michael Grossman
If that’s a problem for us now, try to picture the madness of strolling down the boardwalk in the middle of the summer a century ago, casually wearing a suit or an ankle-length dress, and trying to pretend you aren’t flat-out drowning in sweat. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 2:47 pm by Arthur F. Coon
For a rosier view of the way CEQA operates, readers can check out BAE Urban Economics’ August 2016 report entitled “CEQA in the 21st Century – Environmental Quality, Economic Prosperity, and Sustainable Development in California,” http://rosefdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CEQA-in-the-21st-Century.pdf. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 2:28 pm by Donna Brady
Assessment of cyber risks should be near the top of the list in planning for transportation projects in the 21st century. [read post]