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  • There are some well-specified, testable, and replicated findings of behavioural economists that can and are used to modify the traditional valuation methods.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

  • There are some well-specified, testable, and replicated findings of behavioural economists that can and are used to modify the traditional valuation methods.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

  • So we should be looking for MPs who can understand what the electorate wants and needs and who can convert that into sufficiently well-specified legislation.

    646 astronauts Alix Mortimer 2010

  • In the cases I have studied, again and again I am struck that innovation emerges when people are faced by problems—particular, well-specified problems.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • I think a well-specified wager as is the Wright challenge is an excellent way of seeing how much people believe their claims as opposed to just making rhetorical arguments.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Wager on the Impact of CFPA: 2009

  • While AX is well specified, hCard is well supported (as well as well-specified).

    hCard for OpenID Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange | FactoryCity 2007

  • If you want something similarly lightweight, but actually well-specified, and still human-readable, you might consider YAML, which actually * is* designed to be a cross-environment data transfer language.

    Scripting News for 12/20/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Contrary to the claims in the paper, the regression evidence does not test any well-specified hypothesis, and the correlations that are interpreted as causal effects are really no more than correlations ....

    Foreign Aid Goes Military! Easterly, William 2008

  • There is only one way of getting users to consider opportunity costs and that is to give users well-specified, transferable water rights.

    Valuing Water Properly Is a Key to Wise Development 2008

  • They estimated existence value using contingent valuation, a survey approach designed to create the missing market for public goods by determining what people would be willing to pay (WTP) for specified changes in the quantity or quality of such goods or, more rarely, what they would be willing to accept (WTA) in compensation for well-specified degradations in the provision of these goods.

    Exxon Valdez oil spill 2008

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