May 10, 2012 By: Wayne Lusvardi Noted environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg recently said that cost-benefit studies could be used to evaluate big public works projects having environmental impacts in an age of austerity. But California legislators propose to turn an unneeded cost-benefit study of t...
Posts Tagged ‘peripheral canal’Delta cost-benefit study politicizedThursday, May 10th, 2012Jerry Brown Shifts to ‘Big is Beautiful’Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 SEPT. 6, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI In 1973 a popular book was published advocating a postmodern turn away from a large-scale industrial economy. "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered," by E.F. Schumacher, caught the eye of a young politician, Jerry Brown. As California's governo... Water bills threaten California prosperityThursday, December 31st, 2009By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will Southern California sell its maximum annual entitlement of 2 million acre feet of water from the State Water Project for a bundle of small water projects of uncertain yield, plus $2 billion of political pork barrel projects, if voters approve the proposed $11.1 billion Co... |