jsamples wrote:
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I agree with you--I don't believe that public health bureaucrats will
necessarily be more impartial. The point of Ropeik's article was that,
initially, the EPA and the automobile
If someone knows of a study showing that homelessness is voluntary I would love to see
it. I've never heard that claimed before for the obvious reason -- how would you ask
about it? I can't imagine that a majority of homeless would say that they would prefer
living on the street no matter what
I believe that what most of these "studies" refer to is based on revealed
preferences: Given that jobs and homes are available that these people could
choose in order to move off of the streets, the fact that they still live on
the streets demonstrates their revealed preference for homelessness
Ananda Gupta wrote:
People say they want things. But when it comes time to bear the costs of
having those things, they change their minds. That is, people's true
preferences can be best discovered through observing their actions, not
their words.
Does anyone know of any formal
Hi,
I came across a couple of articles I thought you might enjoy.
Competitive advantage through people
California Management Review; Berkeley; Winter 1994; Pfeffer, Jeffrey;
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/pagana/mg330/pfeffer.html
I believe this article summarizes a book of the same name:
