scholarly journals Game Theoretic Approach for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Proliferation Prevention

2013 ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodoros Spyridopoulos ◽  
George Oikonomou ◽  
Theo Tryfonas ◽  
Mengmeng Ge
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Game Theoretic Approach

scholarly journals Socio-Sexual Education Is Best Addressed as a Field of Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Paul A. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Teachable Moment ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Social Engagements

Sex education typically claims to be value free. The focus of attention in this article is that sex education represents an extraordinary “teachable moment” for helping students consider the qualia of human engagements at a multiplicity of levels. Qualia is a term for the feel and hence the value of experience. Learning about the process of copulating machinery reveals little about the “feel” of sexual experience. Sex education should address issues students will continue to confront for the rest of their lives. Typically, students seem to waffle their way through sexually relevant encounters. Allure and fear are relevant emotions students should be mindful of when considering socio-sexual engagements of any kind. Consequently, rather than focus exclusively on sexual behavior and its consequences, educators should focus on what I have previously introduced as socio-sexual education. Socio-sexual education involves game-theoretic considerations but goes further than mere cost/benefit analysis. Socio-sexual education should focus student attention on understanding of sex and social engagements generally. People live in and through their experiences and not as mere spectators of some narrative in which experience is written about. Learning to understand socio-sexual experiences allows subsequent social and sexual adjustments for improving lived experience over a lifetime. Sex education then should broaden to socio-sexual instruction and reflection.

scholarly journals No More Than Comfort? A logics approach to the 'grip' of cost-benefit analysis in a New Zealand public policy decision

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Clare Markham
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Her2 Positive ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

<p>This study explores an apparent paradox: cost-benefit analysis (CBA) requires a series of highly subjective decisions to calculate, yet is employed for its perceived objectivity. The dominant view of CBA in the academic and policy literature is as a neutral technology, offering an objective resolution to difficult resource allocation problems. However, this view has been much challenged, with long-standing and still-unresolved debates on CBA’s technical calculation and methodological approaches, as well as critiques of its underpinning socio-political assumptions and its consequences. Drawing on the literature considering accounting as a form of discourse, this study investigates CBA and its discursive use in the debate between 2006 and 2008 around the public policy decisions regarding New Zealand’s public funding of Herceptin (trastuzumab) for early HER2-positive breast cancer (‘the debate’). The repeated use of cost and CBA in arguments by the participants in this debate was striking, with both those for and those against funding appearing to regard CBA as especially authoritative. This authority – even dominance – of CBA in public policy decision-making has been addressed from several perspectives, but its affective (embodied, emotional, non-cognitive) dimensions remain under-explored. This study addresses that gap through a qualitative documentary analysis employing the post-structural critical discourse-theoretic approach of Glynos and Howarth’s Logics of Critical Explanation (LCE) framework (Glynos, J., & Howarth, D. (2007). Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). It offers the following contributions: (a) it provides knowledge of how CBA is presented, positioned, contested, and defended in the Herceptin debate; (b) it generates a genealogically-inflected understanding of how these have come about; (c) its offers an explanation for CBA’s ‘grip’ (continued authority despite its difficulties); and (d) it proposes some alternative presentations, positionings, contestations, and defences of CBA.</p>

scholarly journals No More Than Comfort? A logics approach to the 'grip' of cost-benefit analysis in a New Zealand public policy decision

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Clare Markham
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Her2 Positive ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Public Policy Decisions

<p>This study explores an apparent paradox: cost-benefit analysis (CBA) requires a series of highly subjective decisions to calculate, yet is employed for its perceived objectivity. The dominant view of CBA in the academic and policy literature is as a neutral technology, offering an objective resolution to difficult resource allocation problems. However, this view has been much challenged, with long-standing and still-unresolved debates on CBA’s technical calculation and methodological approaches, as well as critiques of its underpinning socio-political assumptions and its consequences. Drawing on the literature considering accounting as a form of discourse, this study investigates CBA and its discursive use in the debate between 2006 and 2008 around the public policy decisions regarding New Zealand’s public funding of Herceptin (trastuzumab) for early HER2-positive breast cancer (‘the debate’). The repeated use of cost and CBA in arguments by the participants in this debate was striking, with both those for and those against funding appearing to regard CBA as especially authoritative. This authority – even dominance – of CBA in public policy decision-making has been addressed from several perspectives, but its affective (embodied, emotional, non-cognitive) dimensions remain under-explored. This study addresses that gap through a qualitative documentary analysis employing the post-structural critical discourse-theoretic approach of Glynos and Howarth’s Logics of Critical Explanation (LCE) framework (Glynos, J., & Howarth, D. (2007). Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). It offers the following contributions: (a) it provides knowledge of how CBA is presented, positioned, contested, and defended in the Herceptin debate; (b) it generates a genealogically-inflected understanding of how these have come about; (c) its offers an explanation for CBA’s ‘grip’ (continued authority despite its difficulties); and (d) it proposes some alternative presentations, positionings, contestations, and defences of CBA.</p>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document