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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on public health, environmental science, and other issues affecting the quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. 

In their new book, *Merchants of Doubt*, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explain how a looseknit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. In seven compelling chapters addressing tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and DDT, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too-compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.


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This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van der Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise knownn as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subject. The authors identify four different methods of decision-making by which the political process transforms the demands of individual citizens into government policy and public goods and services: negotiation, majority decision, representations and bureaucratic implementation. These are analysed, in turn, as independent decision-making models whose effectiveness is examined with reference to economic theory. A final chapter draws conclusions from this analysis, arguing that the size of the public sector is a result of forces that work in different directions at different stages of the political process.

Microeconomics --- Bureaucracy --- Democracy --- Welfare economics --- Bureaucratie --- Démocratie --- Economie du bien-être --- welvaart en welzijn --- democratie --- economische theorieen --- prosperite et bien etre --- theories economiques --- Bureaucracy. --- Democracy. --- Welfare economics. --- Démocratie --- Economie du bien-être --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Interorganizational relations --- Public administration --- Organizational sociology --- Business, Economy and Management