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pronounced, and it can vary considerably from culture to culture depending
upon the institutional matrix and the vision of public leadership in any given
society.
The time-lag involved in the cultural appropriation of new scientific
knowledge becomes a critical issue in trying to devise appropriate public
policy for the global environment. Human communities perceive problems and
devise public policies largely on the basis of metaphors derived from their
historical experience. When confronted with new circumstances, the culturally
dominant metaphors available to guide and motivate action may prove to be
inappropriate or dysfunctional, engendering collective behavior that hastens
ecosystemic collapse rather than that which might preserve system-wide
integrity and continuity. This paper examines some of the disparities between
emerging scientific models and the dominant cultural metaphors which continue
to condition the development of public policy on environmental issues.
Weitzman, Martin L. (1974). "Free Access vs. Private Ownership as
Alternative Systems for Managing Common Property." Journal of
Economic Theory, 8:225-234.
This paper develops a formal model to characterize and compare the
alternative static allocations of resources that occur under conditions of
free access and of private property ownership. There turns out to be a
definite limitation on the amount of inefficiency that can be introduced into
a competitive situation when property is freely accessible. That bound has an
interesting welfare interpretation. The variable factor will always be better
off with (inefficient) free access rights to the fixed factor than under
(efficient) private ownership of property.
Weitzman, Martin L. (1974). "Prices vs. Quantities." Review of
Economic Studies, 41(128):477-491.
For one particular economic variable that needs to be regulated, what is
the best way to implement control for the benefit of the organization as a
whole? Is it better to directly administer the activity under scrutiny
(quantities) or to fix transfer prices and rely on self-interested profit or
utility maximization to achieve the same ends in decentralized fashion.
Wellman, Katharine F. (1990). "Chicken of the Sea?: The U.S. Consumer
Retail Demand for Fish Products." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department
of Economics, University of Washington.
The principle objectives of this study are (1) to address the
limitations of past U.S. fish demand research at the retail level through the
development of a variation of the almost ideal demand system model of
disaggregate fish products; (2) to address relevant model specification and
estimation issues including the choice of an appropriate functional form, the
incorporation of non-economic variables and household quality choice, and the
determination of an estimation procedure for a system of demand equations
given a sample with censored dependent variables; and (3) to address the
importance of this economic analysis in the context of fisheries management
and market development and promotion.
Weninger, Quinn R.(1998). Assessing Efficiency Gains from Individual
Transferable Quotas: An Application to the Mid-Atlantic Surf Clam and
Ocean Quahog Fishery. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
80(4):750-764.
Delayed fishing fleet restructuring complicates the assessment of
efficiency gains from individual transferable quota (ITQ) fisheries management
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