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FALL 2005

MPP 800 - Introduction to Public Policy Issues

1. Managing Bangladesh schools (1)

2. Managing Bangladesh schools (2)

3. Managing Bangladesh schools (3)

4. Protecting Canadian bicycle manufacturers

5. Promoting early childhood education

6. Organizing disaster relief, New Orleans case study

7. Recognizing sharia courts

8. Organizing health services in Africa

9. British Columbia. 2003. Report of the BC Climate Change Economic Impacts Panel

10. Can Aid Work?

MPP 812 - Benefit Cost Analysis Course Documents

Course Outline

1. Introduction to BCA
2. Limitations in the Concept of Value
3. Gowdy - Land Economics
4. Kopp et al. - Benefit Cost Analysis and Regulatory Reform
5. The Concept of Value in Resource Allocation - Brown
6. RAV Multiple Account Evaluation
7. Wuskwatim BCA
8. Wuskwatim vs. Wind BCA
9. Knetsch, J. & J. Sinden. Willingness to Pay and Compensation Demand.
10. UK MCA Manual
11. Design of Coordinated Energy and Environmental Policies: Use of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making - L. Greening & S. Bernow
12. Incorporation of Environmental & Social Impacts in the Evaluation of Alternative Electricity Resources. M. Shaffer & Associates
13. Shaffer, M., Greer, A. & Mauboules - Olympics Costs & Benefits
14. “Just Give Me a Number!” Practical Values for the Social Discount Rate - M.Moore, A.Boardman, A.Vining, D.Weimer, & D.Greenberg
15. The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care. - Portney, Paul R.
16. Pricing Environmental Externalities in the power sector: ethical limits and implications for social choice. Patrick Soderholm and Thomas Sundqvist

FALL 2004
MPP 800 Course Documents

Readings for Sept 24th Speaker: Mark Jaccard
1. Jaccard, M. "California Shorts a Circuit"
2. Murphy, R. & M. Jaccard. "The Voluntary Approach to GHG Reduction: A Case Study of BC Hydro"
3. Jaccard, M. & Y. Mao. "Making Markets Work Better"
4. Kessides, I et al. 2004. *Reforming Regulation: Privatization, Regulation, and Competition.* Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
5. World Bank. 2004. Press conference accompanying publication of *Reforming Infrastructure* (14 June 2004).

Readings for Oct 8th Speakers: Tony Penikett and Doug McArthur
1. Penikett, T. 2003. "Tuning Up Treaty Talks"
2. Penikiett, T. 2004 "Negotiating with the Haida"
3. Flanagan, T., and A. Cairns. 2001. "An Exchange."
4. Richards, J. forthcoming. "It was forced feeding from the start." Chapter 2 of *Creating Choices.*
5. Statistics Canada. 2004. "A Profile of the Aboriginal Population by Areas of Residence in Canada: Demographic, Social and Economic Conditions."
6. McArthur, Doug. 2000. Modern Treaties: Institutional Dynamics and Institutional Change
7. Ministry of Forests Accomodation Policy
8. Cowichan Accomodation Agreement

Readings for Oct 22nd Speakers: Jon Kesselman and John Weir
1. Agarwal, N. 2003. "Mandatory Retirement and the Canadian Human Rights Act."
2. Black, S. 2004. "The Scrapping of MR: Who Loses?"
3. Gunderson, Morley. 2004. "Banning Mandatory Retirement: Throwing Out the Baby With the Bathwater." Backgrounder 79.
4. Kesselman, Jon. forthcoming. "Challenging the Economic Assumptions of Mandatory Retirement."
5. Kesselman, Jon. 2004. "Mandatory Retirement And Older Workers: Encouraging Longer Working Lives." Commentary 200.

Readings for November 5th Speakers: Cynthia Williams and John Richards
1. Institute for Public Policy Research. 2004. Centre for Asset Based Welfare.
2. Mead, L. 2004. "Introduction." chapter one of *Government Matters: The Case of Welfare Reform in Wisconsin.*
3. Moffitt, R. 2004. "The Idea of a Negative Income Tax." Focus. 23:2
4. National Council for Welfare. 2004. "Income for Living?"
5. Richards J. 2001. "Neighbors Matter."
6. Saskatchewan. 2004. Saskatchewan Employment Supplement
7. Voyer, J.-P. 2003. "New Approaches to Poverty and Exclusion: A Strategic Framework." Horizons. VI:2:29-33.
8. Walker, R. & M. Wiseman. 2002. "Refreshing Reform: Ideas from British Welfare Strategy."

Readings for November 19th Speaker: Greg Marchildon
1. Boothe, P. & M. Carson. 2003. "What Happened to Health-Care Reform?" Commentary 193. Toronto: C.D.  Howe Institute.
2. Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. 2002. Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada. (Romanow Report).
3. First Ministers Meeting on the Future of Health Care. 2004. "A 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care."
4. Kirby M. 2004. *Why Competition is Essential in the Delivery of Publicly Funded Health Care Services.* Montreal: IRPP.
5. Maioni, A. 2003. "Romanow - A Defence of Public Health Care, But is there a Map for the Road Ahead?". Policy Options (February).
6. Marchildon, G. 2004. *Three Choices for the Future of Medicare.* Ottawa: Caledon Institute.
7. St.Hilaire, F. & H. Lazar. 2003. "He Said, She Said: The Debate on Vertical Fiscal Imbalance and Federal Health Care Funding." Policy Options (February).