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sea turtle stocks which is in fact a ludicrous argument.
Weil, Ernesto M. and Roger G. Laughlin (1984). Biology, Population Dynamics,
and Reproduction of the Queen Conch Strombus Gigas Linne in the
Archipelago De Los Roques National Park. Journal of Shellfish
Research, 4(1):45-62.
Data relating to the distribution, population dynamics, and reproduction
of the queen conch Strombus gigas Linne at the Archipielago Los Roques
National Park, Venezuela are presented.
Weisbrod, Burton A. (1968). "Income Redistribution Effects and Benefit-
Cost Analysis." In S.C. (ed.) Problems in Public Expenditure
Analysis, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
This paper considers the conceptual case for integrating income
distributional effects and allocative efficiency effects in the evaluation of
public expenditure projects.
Weintraub, E. Roy (1982). Mathematics for Economists. Cambridge
University Press, New York.
This book is written out of the belief that a student's intuition should
be involved in the study of mathematical techniques in economics. The book is
designed to develop an understanding of the optimization problem and concludes
with chapters on classical programming and linear and nonlinear programming.
Weisberg, Herbert F. (1978). "Evaluating Theories of Congressional
Roll-Call Voting." American Journal of Political Science,
22(3):554-577.
Criteria are developed to evaluate recent theories of roll-call voting
in the House of Representatives. Since tests of these very different theories
find high levels of predictive success, we must decide how to choose among
them. Baseline models are developed to show the extent to which the votes
could be predicted with minimal information. The 80-90 percent of the
individual votes correctly predicted by the theories is found to be little
improvement over the baseline models predicting voting along with the House or
party majority. Since the statistical criterion is found to be indeterminate,
the importance of verisimilitude to the process being studied is stressed.
Simulation studies have done a good job of portraying the process aspects, and
they could be usefully combined with statistical studies of long term forces
and interviewing studies of short term forces affecting the voting. Theory
development in the field should move to a more longitudinal perspective, as
well as combining the long term and short term elements into a single
overarching theory.
Weiskel, T.C. (1991). "Muddles in the Models: Ecosystemic Process,
Cultural Understandings and the Limits of Human Metaphor in
Devising Public Policy for Global Environmental Change." Presented
at the GSA Meetings, San Diego, California, October.
Scientific understanding of the earth's ecosystem has developed through
a series of successive metaphors or models, each of which has proved to be
more inclusive than its predecessors in explaining natural phenomena. While
these metaphors or models help to extend our ecological understanding, it is
important to realize that a substantially different set of metaphors inform
the cultural beliefs and guide the collective behavior of human communities.
In short, the gap between what people know and how they act can be quite
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