Feelings Do Not a Science Make

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

'Stone walls do not a prison make'.

Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right

491 National Tax Journal Vol. LIX, No. 3 September 2006 Abstract This paper analyzes proposals to remedy tax–induced distortions in health care by using new tax incentives and retaining all of the existing distortionary tax incentives. In the process of remedying some distortions, this approach magnifi es others—most notably increasing the total tax preference for health care. The paper conside...

Better science does not make decisions easier

Forty years of development in the science and technology of estimating and quantifying risk, of understanding of human behaviour and human rationale has made decision makers more informed. We are in a much better position now, than forty years ago in estimating probabilities, consequences, and damages, and in estimating and dealing with the associated uncertainties in an organised way. This did...

Why we do not make housecalls.