Books: 'Cost efficiency analysis'

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Ng, Yew-Kwang. Efficiency versus equality: The case for aggregate compensating variations in cost-benefit analysis. Coventry: University of Warwick Department of Economics, 1991.

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Ng, Yew-Kwang. Efficiency versus equality: The case for aggregate compensating variations in cost-benefit analysis. Coventry: Warwick University, Department of Economics, 1991.

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Luken, Ralph Andrew. Efficiency in environmental regulation: A benefit-cost analysis of alternative approaches. Norwell, Mass: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

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Luken, Ralph Andrew. Efficiency in environmental regulation: A benefit-cost analysis of alternative approaches. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

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Venkatesh, Anand. Short and long-run cost efficiency in state transport undertakings using data envelopment analysis. Anand, Gujarat: Institute of Rural Management, Anand, 2014.

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Sarkis, Ziad. Cost structure analysis under disequilibrium: Price, scale, efficiency and capacity utilisation effects. Oxford: Oxford University, Institute of Economics and Statistics, 1999.

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Adhikari, Ramesh. Manufacturing industries in developing countries: An economic efficiency analysis of Nepal. Aldershot: Avebury, 1988.

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Manufacturing industries in developing countries: An economic efficiency analysis of Nepal. Aldershot, Hants, England: Avebury, 1988.

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Lang, Günter. Size and cost efficiency in universal banking: Empirical analysis of the German Banking Industry. Warsaw: National Bank of Poland, Research Dept., 1996.

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California Urban Water Conservation Council. BMP costs & savings study: A guide to data and methods for cost-effectiveness analysis of urban water conservation best management practices. Sacramento (455 Capitol Mall, Suite 703, Sacramento 95814): California Urban Water Conservation Council, 2000.

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Sengotta, M. Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Verfahrens der erweiterten Wirtschaftlichkeitsrechnung zur Bewertung komplexer Arbeitssysteme. Dortmund: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz, 1994.

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Travers, Eleanor M. Managing costs in clinical laboratories: A manager's fiscal guide to laboratory cost effectiveness and productivity. New York: McGraw-Hill Information Services Co., 1989.

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S, Madheswaran, and Institute for Social and Economic Change, eds. Energy use efficiency in Indian cement industry: Application of data envelopment analysis and directional distance function. Bangalore: Institute for Social and Economic Change, 2009.

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Organization, World Health, ed. Policy tools for allocative efficiency of health services. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003.

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Value stream mapping for healthcare made easy. New York: Productivity Press, 2010.

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Espigares, José Luis Navarro. Análisis de la eficiencia en las organizaciones hospitalarias públicas. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1999.

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Desideri, Umberto, Giampaolo Manfrida, and Enrico Sciubba, eds. ECOS 2012. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-322-9.

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The 8-volume set contains the Proceedings of the 25th ECOS 2012 International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 26th to June 29th, 2012. ECOS is an acronym for Efficiency, Cost, Optimization and Simulation (of energy conversion systems and processes), summarizing the topics covered in ECOS: Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Exergy and Second Law Analysis, Process Integration and Heat Exchanger Networks, Fluid Dynamics and Power Plant Components, Fuel Cells, Simulation of Energy Conversion Systems, Renewable Energies, Thermo-Economic Analysis and Optimisation, Combustion, Chemical Reactors, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Building/Urban/Complex Energy Systems, Water Desalination and Use of Water Resources, Energy Systems- Environmental and Sustainability Issues, System Operation/ Control/Diagnosis and Prognosis, Industrial Ecology.

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Benefit-cost analyses for security policies: Does increased safety have to reduce efficiency? Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

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Designing cost-efficient mechanisms: Minimum constraint design, designing with commercial components, and topics in design engineering. Warrendale, PA, U.S.A: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1993.

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Vink, Mark J. C. Efficiency in higher education: A comparative analysis on sectoral and institutional level. Utrecht: Elsevier/De Tijdstroom, 1997.

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Osipov, Vladimir. Management accounting of expenses of an industrial enterprise. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1206681.

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The monograph comprehensively examines the problems of management accounting of expenses of an industrial enterprise in order to find ways to improve the efficiency of its functioning in the current economic conditions. A detailed description of the process of resource consumption is given, the role of management accounting in ensuring its successful implementation is determined. The composition of the information used in the management of the company's expenses is disclosed. Domestic and foreign management accounting systems are considered, and proposals for their further improvement are put forward. The procedure for monitoring management decisions that determine the costs of an enterprise at certain stages of their existence is studied. Close attention is paid to the economic analysis aimed at finding reserves for improving the efficiency of resource consumption and identifying ways to implement them. For students, postgraduates, teachers and anyone interested in management accounting.

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New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Critical Transportation Choices. Mass transit bus maintenance programs: Are theses [i.e. these] governmental investments being maintained, efficiently and cost effectively? : issues and analysis. [Albany, N.Y.]: The Commission, 1986.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee. The Systematic Approach for Value Engineering Act: Hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on H.R. 281, to promote competitiveness and more efficient government operations by requiring a value engineering review for certain types of federal contracts, and for other purposes, June 23, 1992. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.

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Cookson, Richard, Susan Griffin, Ole F. Norheim, and Anthony J. Culyer, eds. Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198838197.001.0001.

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Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help healthcare and public health organizations make fairer decisions with better outcomes. Standard cost-effectiveness analysis provides information about total costs and effects. Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis provides additional information about fairness in the distribution of costs and effects—who gains, who loses, and by how much. It can also provide information about the trade-offs that sometimes occur between efficiency objectives such as improving total health and equity objectives such as reducing unfair inequality in health. This is a practical guide to a flexible suite of economic methods for quantifying the equity consequences of health programmes in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. The methods can be tailored and combined in various ways to provide useful information to different decision makers in different countries with different distributional equity concerns. The handbook is primarily aimed at postgraduate students and analysts specializing in cost-effectiveness analysis but is also accessible to a broader audience of health sector academics, practitioners, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders. Part I is an introduction and overview for research commissioners, users, and producers. Parts II and III provide step-by-step technical guidance on how to simulate and evaluate distributions, with accompanying hands-on spreadsheet training exercises. Part IV concludes with discussions about how to handle uncertainty about facts and disagreement about values, and the future challenges facing this young and rapidly evolving field of study.

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Zerbe, Richard O. Cost–Benefit Analysis in Legal Decision-Making. Edited by Francesco Parisi. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684267.013.027.

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Benefit-cost analysis (BCA), or cost-benefit analysis, is important in policy and law. This article introduces the nature and history of BCA to provide an understanding of the development of the benefit-cost concepts, objections to the concepts, and their actual use in legal and economic practice. The term ‘benefit-cost’ is used to differentiate from the term ‘cost-benefit’ used by engineers whose approach is more mechanical than terms of efficiency used in law and economics. BCA is seen as a useful tool with some positive predictive ability in determining judge's decisions. It also appears to contribute to greater efficiency in government investment spending.

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Efficiency in environmental regulation : a benefit-cost analysis of alternative approaches. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1990.

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1927-, Williams Alan, and Giardina Emilio, eds. Efficiency in the public sector: The theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis. Aldershot, Hants, England: Edward Elgar, 1993.

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(Editor), Alan Williams, and Emilio Giardina (Editor), eds. Efficiency in the Public Sector: The Theory and Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.

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Olsen, Jan Abel. Economics and efficiency. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794837.003.0002.

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This chapter, the longest in the book, explains the fundamentals of microeconomics and its application to the analysis of health and healthcare. The concepts of scarcity and opportunity costs lie at the heart of the economics discipline. Based on the standard production function with two input factors, the important concept of cost-efficiency is explained; and based on the premise of scarcity in the availability of input factors, the concept of opportunity costs is explained. An important insight from consumer theory is that people make trade-offs. Their preferences and income determine their chosen combination of goods, as illustrated by an indifference curve. An important piece of information for policymakers attempting to intervene in people’s demand for healthy, and unhealthy, goods is to know how sensitive demand is to changing prices and income. The chapter explains and defines elasticities of demand.

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Pullenayegum, Eleanor Maria. Semi-parametric models for cost-effectiveness analysis: Improving the efficiency of estimation from censored data. 2006.

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L, Patterson Richard, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., eds. Balancing reliability and cost to choose the best power subsystem. [Washington, D.C.]: NASA, 1991.

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International Guidelines for Estimating Costs of Substance Abuse, Second Edition. 2nd ed. World Health Organization, 2003.

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International guidelines for estimating the costs of substance abuse. 2nd ed. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003.

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Silva, Elvira, Spiro E. Stefanou, and Alfons Oude Lansink. Dynamic Efficiency and Productivity Measurement. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190919474.001.0001.

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The book takes on a systematic treatment of dynamic decision making and performance measurement. The analytical foundations of the dynamic production technology are introduced and developed in detail for several primal representations of the technology with an emphasis on dynamic directional distance functions. Dynamic cost minimization and dynamic profit maximization are developed for primal and dual representations of the dynamic technology. A dynamic production environment can be characterized as one where current production decisions impact future production possibilities. Consequently, the dynamic perspective of production relationships necessarily involves the close interplay between stock and flow elements in the transformation process and how current decisions impact the changes in future stocks. Stock elements in the production transformation process can involve physical elements that can be effectively employed in the transformation process, which can include the stock of technical knowledge and expertise available to the decision maker during the decision period. The dynamic generalization of concepts measuring the production structure (e.g., economies of scale, economies of scope, capacity utilization) and performance (e.g., allocative, scale and technical inefficiency, productivity) are developed from primal and dual perspectives. As an important source of productivity growth, production efficiency analysis is the subject of countless studies. Yet, theoretical and empirical studies focusing on production efficiency have ignored typically the time interdependence of production decisions and the adjustment paths of the firm over time. The empirical implementation of these production and performance measures is developed at length for both nonparametric and econometric approaches.

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Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. National Academies Press, 2013.

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Jeffrey, Waincymer. Part IX Costs, Funding, and Ideas for Optimization, 28 Optimizing the use of Mediation in International Arbitration: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of ‘Two Hat’ Versus ‘Two People’ Models. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198783206.003.0029.

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This chapter considers the question of whether an arbitrator may also adopt a mediation function or whether the dual roles are antithetical. It tests that hypothesis by engaging in a cost-benefit analysis of differing scenarios when mediation is utilized in an arbitral context. The prime comparison is between parallel mediation with a separate neutral and the alternative of a dual-role neutral. The three key points are: there should be much more mediation occurring at the international level, regarding both potential and actual arbitral disputes; a commercially minded arbitrator concerned for the parties’ good faith should encourage mediation where appropriate, in particular, when an adjudicated outcome will not be in the interests of either, usually because the dispute is a small part of a long-term relationship that can risk that relationship no matter who wins; and, while informed party autonomy should always support a dual-role neutral, in most factual permutations, informed parties could be expected to prefer parallel mediation provided there is full cooperation between mediator and arbitrator. The chapter argues that the relative benefits of the use of dual-role neutrals would be greatly outweighed by the costs in fairness and efficiency, and the inevitable need for a sub-optimal design of either or both dispute processes. The benefits would also be separately outweighed by the risks of significant disruption to any ensuing arbitration if a dual-role neutral fails to achieve a settlement.

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Lindemann, Udo, Klaus Ehrlenspiel, and Alfons Kiewert. Cost-Efficient Design. Amer Society of Mechanical, 2007.

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Lindemann, Udo, Klaus Ehrlenspiel, Alfons Kiewert, and Mahendra S. Hundal. Cost-Efficient Design. Springer, 2010.

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John, Choong. 6 Expedited Proceedings: (SIAC RULE 5). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810650.003.0006.

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One of the criticisms against international arbitration is its occasional failure to live up to its potential for the expeditious resolution of disputes. Indeed, there is a tension at the core of modern international arbitration. On the one hand, parties seek speedy, cost-efficient, and final dispute resolution; while on the other hand, the absence of an appeal mechanism for arbitral awards generates a perceived need for exhaustive analysis of every fact and conceivable argument and for the retention of the ‘best’ (and therefore the busiest) lawyers and arbitrators, creating an attendant risk of ever-longer and more expensive arbitration proceedings. This chapter discusses the SIAC's rules designed to achieve expedition and cost-efficiency in all cases. These include Rule 5.1 on circumstances in which the expedited procedure may be appropriate, and Rule 5.2 covering the SIAC expedited procedure.

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Bjørnerheim, Reidar, Genevieve Derumeaux, and Andrzej Gackowski. Digital echocardiography laboratory. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198726012.003.0017.

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Modern digital echo laboratories are based on echo scanners working in a network with file server(s) and work-station computers for offline analysis and reporting. They may be based on vendor-specific software, but are preferably based on vendor-independent software solutions, being able to handle data from all brands of scanners. To enable analysis of advanced echocardiographic techniques, plug-ins for vendor-specific solutions should be integrated in the otherwise vendor-independent software. To obtain full efficiency, the system should be integrated with the hospital information system for patient demographics and scheduling, and the approved report should automatically be returned to the electronic patient record without the need for scanning or other handling by manpower. To obtain this, a variety of standards have been developed, most of them for medical imaging in general. Scanners of all major brands deliver data compatible with those standards, even if compatibility problems may occur. When the optimal solution for the individual organization has been established, running the echo lab changes significantly. Digital images are stored on safe repositories without quality loss and are available for viewing outside the echo lab. Offline measurements, structured reporting, education, research, quality control, and financial analyses are available. The lab becomes more efficient and cost-effective.

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Kamm, Lawrence J. Designing Cost-Efficient Mechanisms: Minimum Constraint Design, Designing With Commercial Components, and Topics in Design Engineering. Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1990.

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Designing Cost-Efficient Mechanisms: Minimum Constraint Design, Designing With Commercial Components, and Topics in Design Engineering. Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1990.

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Fisher, Talia. Law and Economics of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Edited by Francesco Parisi. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684250.013.008.

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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) refers to a variety of private processes for resolving disputes, independent of trial before a court of law. Economists are interested in ADR for two main reasons. First, from an ex post perspective, the manner in which disputes are resolved or decided in society affects the operation of the legal system and its cost-efficiency. Second, from an ex ante perspective, the manner in which rights are vindicated impacts primary behavior and investments in prospective dispute avoidance. The literature relating to the economic analysis of ADR can be divided into two facets: one facet is dedicated to the interests of litigating parties to make use of ADR mechanisms; the other is directed at the social interest in ADR. This chapter identifies the conditions under which parties will be incentivized to enter into ADR proceedings, and then moves on to examine the social welfare implications of ADR.

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Commercial Vehicles 2021. VDI Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51202/9783181023808.

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Contents Ways to achieve Zero Emission ZF E-Mobility products and software for commercial vehicles ..... 1 Thermoelectric generators for heavy-duty vehicles as an economical waste heat recovery system ..... 17 Hybridization of heavy duty trucks – Market analysis and technology for high voltage as well as low voltage solutions ..... 33 Development processes and methods Lightweight construction and cost reduction – a lean, agile MSCDPS® product development process ..... 43 eDrive & Fuel Cell powertrain systems engineering for commercial vehicles ..... 55 Fatigue development of a 10x10 commercial vehicle frame using dynamic and/or strength simulation, virtual iteration and component testing together with measurement data acquisition ..... 73 Data-driven selection of vehicle variants for the E/E integration test – Increasing variants and complex technology versus test coverage ..... 81 Hydrogen propulsion High performance and efficiency hydrogen engine using westport fuel systems’ Commercially available HPDI fuel system ..... 97 E/E architecture and operating strategy for fuel-cell trucks – Challenges...

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1994, Denen H. d., Marketing Management Assistance Project (Zambia), Zambia. Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Fisheries. Food Security Division., and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations., eds. Maize marketing costs and margins: A preliminary analysis of the efficiency and profitability of private maize trade during the 1994/95 maize marketing season. Lusaka: Marketing Management Assistance Project, 1995.

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Vig, Sanjana, and Steven Boggs. Financial Analysis and Competitive Strategies for NORA. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190495756.003.0007.

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The scientific and technical principles that form the basis of anesthesia practice are transferrable to any location where patients require monitoring, analgesia, and hypnosis. Most growth seen in anesthesia services in the past decade has occurred in non–operating room anesthesia locations. Anesthesiologists are critical for the safe and efficient functioning of these locations. However, with the ever-increasing pressure to reduce total health care delivery costs, anesthesiologists need to understand some of the financial metrics that will be used to measure their contribution to these locations. Moreover, anesthesiologists must be willing to articulate the rationale for their presence in these areas: patient safety, patient comfort, and increased throughput, to name a few.

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Brazier, John, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, and Aki Tsuchiya. A QALY is a QALY is a QALY—or is it not? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725923.003.0010.

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This chapter looks at a theoretical framework for diversions from the assumption that all units of health gain have equal social value, and examins different ways in which welfarists and non-welfarists may call for cost per weighted QALY analyses, for efficiency-based reasons, and equity-motivated reasons. A distinction is drawn between the value of health to individuals (which is a matter of preference) and the value of health of different people to society (which is a matter of normative judgement). Another distinction is drawn between weighting QALYs across different people because of who they are and weighting QALYs across different people because of the level of their baseline health. The chapter also presents a brief look at the challenges associated with empirical research in the topic, their findings, and the practicalities of cost per weighted QALYs.

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Ghaleigh, Navraj Singh. Economics and International Climate Change Law. Edited by Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky, and Cinnamon Carlarne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199684601.003.0004.

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This chapter presents an economic analysis of climate change and international climate change law. From an economic perspective, the environment becomes a scarce resource which must be allocated between competing ends. The economics of climate change draws mainly on the two foundational insights of economics. The first is that the free exchange of goods tends to move resources to their highest valued use, in which case the allocation of resources is said to be ‘Pareto-efficient’. The second is that economic agents respond to incentives. Economic agents are rational utility maximizers, meaning that they will undertake those actions which raise their level of utility. The chapter examines economist Ronald Coase’s article The Problem of Social Cost, which deals with externalities, the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit, and applies it to pollution and emissions trading.

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Mark, Mangan, Reed Lucy, and Choong John. 6 Expedited Proceedings. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199657216.003.0006.

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This chapter presents an overview of the proceedings of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) to address its failure to resolve the expeditious resolution of disputes. There is a tension at the core of modern international arbitration. Parties seek fast, cost-efficient and final dispute resolution; however, the absence of an appeal mechanism for arbitral awards generates a need for comprehensive analysis for retention of the best lawyers and arbitrators. This creates a risk of long and expensive arbitration proceedings. The tension makes international arbitration inefficient in dealing with urgent cases.

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Abney, Keith. Robots and Space Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0023.

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As we begin our venture into space, issues with serious ethical implications deserve heightened scrutiny: among them are protection from space debris, hazardous asteroids, and other cosmic threats; planetary protection/quarantine and other safety and risk issues; protection of astronaut health; commercial and private sector activities in space, including tourism; and terraforming, colonization, and space settlements. The presumption that these activities require human astronauts is itself worthy of serious question; whether for reasons of cost, efficiency, or moral qualms, robots may be an ethically preferable choice to engage in most or perhaps even all of these activities. This chapter examines these issues and analyzes the moral case for robots, rather than human beings, filling the roles of space explorers, developers, miners, defenders, and settlers of the final frontier.

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