Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Covid-19 pandemic is revealing some uncomfortable truths about American society when we consider the devastating impact the virus is having on minority and poor communities. On May 13, 2020, PBS ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 19, Special issue on Demographic aspects of human wellbeing (2021), pp. 39-64 (26 pages) The current practise of cost-benefit analysis inWestern countries ...

The effects of new technologies and discoveries -- from nuclear power to medical treatments --often must be inferred long before they are experienced, forcing policymakers to rely on risk, cost and ...

Conservatives support cost-benefit analysis when it slows progressive regulation but abandon it when it stands in the way of their deregulatory agenda. For the past 40 years, the process by which the ...