Evaluating Social Benefits and Costs of Investment Treaties: Depoliticization of Investment Disputes

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Ursula Kriebaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Benefits ◽  
Investment Treaties ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Social Benefits and Social Costs of Drug Control Laws

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Black Markets ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Levels Of Control

While drug control laws tend to reduce the incidence of drug use, their enforcement is not without cost to society. Among the most obvious costs is the development of black markets in drugs and the criminalization of users. Modest control laws can substantially reduce drug use without incurring serious social costs. However, increasing the severity of control laws adds less and less to the benefits achieved and more and more to the costs to society. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. We should aim for optimum levels of control by weighing both the benefits and costs of our drug control laws.

Social benefits and costs of large scale research infrastructures

2016 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Florio ◽  
Emanuela Sirtori
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Biofuels: economic, environmental and social benefits and costs for developing countries in Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 497-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabbir H. Gheewala ◽  
Beau Damen ◽  
Xunpeng Shi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Socio-Economic Contributions To Technological Assessment: The Tics Approach

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
Theodore Downing
Keyword(s):  
Technology Assessment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Technological Assessment ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Identification Analysis ◽  
Systematic Identification ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Technology assessments (TA's) evaluate the potential social benefits and costs associated with the development of new technologies. Although specialists sometimes disagree, basically a technology assessment is: the systematic identification, analysis, and evaluation of the potential secondary consequences (whether beneficial or detrimental) of technology in terms of its impact on social, cultural, political, economic and environmental systems and processes … (It) . . is intended to provide a neutral, factual input into the decision-making process. (V. T. Coates Readings in Technology Assessment 1975:11)

An outline of a cost–benefit analysis of increased felling in Sweden

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-642
Author(s):  
Per-Olov Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Excess Demand ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Benefits And Costs

For some years it has been claimed that there is a "shortage" of roundwood in Sweden. The purpose of this paper is to examine what is meant by this shortage and to estimate social benefits and costs of an increased supply of roundwood. The estimates indicate that it is profitable for the society to eliminate the excess demand (shortage) through an increased supply.

scholarly journals The social benefits and costs of preserving forest biodiversity and ecosystem services

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Lindhjem ◽  
Kristine Grimsrud ◽  
Ståle Navrud ◽  
Stein Olav Kolle
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Forest Biodiversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The Economics of Asian Casino Gaming and Gambling

2013 ◽  
pp. 54-86
Author(s):  
Ricardo Chi Sen Siu
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Casino Gambling ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Asian Culture ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Casino Gaming ◽  
Industry Performance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Fundamentals ◽  
Benefits And Costs

This chapter examines the economics of Asian casino gambling and the factors responsible for the evolution and organization of the casino industries. In addition to the market fundamentals, the significance of the unique features of Asian culture and related institutional structure of gaming industry performance are addressed. Finally, controversial debates over the social benefits and costs of casino gaming in Asia are evaluated.

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