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Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 47, Fall Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 47, Fall Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)
No abstract provided.
Nebraska V. Wyoming: The End Or Collaboration?, Wendy Weiss, James Montgomery
Nebraska V. Wyoming: The End Or Collaboration?, Wendy Weiss, James Montgomery
Strategies in Western Water Law and Policy: Courts, Coercion and Collaboration (Summer Conference, June 8-11)
13 pages.
Contains footnotes.
Federal Water Rights In The Snake River Basin Adjudication, Michael A. Gheleta
Federal Water Rights In The Snake River Basin Adjudication, Michael A. Gheleta
Strategies in Western Water Law and Policy: Courts, Coercion and Collaboration (Summer Conference, June 8-11)
34 pages (includes maps).
The Esa: Oil And Water?, Joseph L. Sax
The Esa: Oil And Water?, Joseph L. Sax
Strategies in Western Water Law and Policy: Courts, Coercion and Collaboration (Summer Conference, June 8-11)
4 pages.
Basin-Wide Adjudications In The West: What Works, What Doesn’T?, Ramsey L. Kropf
Basin-Wide Adjudications In The West: What Works, What Doesn’T?, Ramsey L. Kropf
Strategies in Western Water Law and Policy: Courts, Coercion and Collaboration (Summer Conference, June 8-11)
18 pages.
Contains 2 pages of references.
Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 46, Spring Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 46, Spring Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)
No abstract provided.
Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 45, Winter Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 45, Winter Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler, Eric A. Posner
Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler, Eric A. Posner
Faculty Scholarship
This paper analyzes cost-benefit analysis from legal, economic, and philosophical perspectives. The traditional defense of cost-benefit analysis is that it maximizes a social welfare function that aggregates unweighted and unrestricted preferences. We follow many economists and philosophers who conclude that this defense is not persuasive. Cost-benefit analysis unavoidably depends on controversial distributive judgments; and the view that the government should maximize the satisfaction of unrestricted preferences is not plausible. However, we disagree with critics who argue that cost-benefit analysis produces morally irrelevant evaluations of projects and should be abandoned. On the contrary, cost-benefit analysis, suitably constrained, is consistent with a …