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...finger? Chandler believes there is. Most of the time we flip someone off, he points out, we do so secretly, in the privacy of the car or after the person has walked away - a good idea if we want to avoid getting slugged. But that doesn't mean no one gets hurt...
Read "Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think...
...work in different industries—we should all keep in mind that there are many other careers besides that of an entry-level financier. We should all sit down and actually think about what we want to do with our lives—and by that I mean more than the first job after graduation. The financial crisis should serve as an opportunity for every undergraduate at the College to ponder their life goals, their ambitions, and the hard truths of economic reality. If we can do that, then the rest of the process should be a piece...
...Making that calculation, of course, requires placing a dollar value on human life, which can mean getting into some sensitive areas. Sunstein has written in support of what some people call the "senior death discount," the statistical practice of taking into account years of life expectancy when evaluating a regulation. By that measure, for example, it would be harder to justify spending to correct an environmental hazard that posed more of a threat to the elderly than one that was more dangerous to children, who have many more years ahead of them...
...closely to see what develops from a request that the Obama White House put out last month to the heads of federal agencies, asking for their ideas on how to revise both the government rulemaking process and the way OIRA reviews those rules. For one thing, it appears to mean that the new Administration will be looking for ways to apply cost-benefit analysis differently. The Institute for Policy Integrity, a progressive group headed by Livermore at New York University School of Law, has issued a list of proposed reforms that would include greater transparency for the OIRA review processes...