Economic Theory and Public Decisions:(Economists of the Twentieth Century Series) Selected Essays of Robert Dorfman Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	The Detection of Defective Members of Large Populations	3
2	Mathematical, or "Linear," Programming: A Nonmathematical Exposition	11
3	A Catechism: Mathematics in Social Science	40
4	The Nature and Significance of Input-Output	44
5	Operations Research	57
6	An Economic Interpretation of Optimal Control Theory	86
7	Optimal Advertising and Optimal Quality	103
8	A Graphical Exposition of Bohm-Bawerk's Interest Theory	114
9	General Equilibrium with Public Goods	121
10	A Formula for the Gini Coefficient	150
11	The Meaning of Internal Rates of Return	154
12	Transition Costs of Changing Regulations	165
13	On Optimal Congestion	181
14	An Economist's View of Natural Resource and Environmental Problems	199
15	Food for a Developing World (with W. P. Falcon)	228
16	Protecting the Global Environment: An Immodest Proposal	247
17	The Functions of the City	257
18	Social Decisions without Social Preferences	266
19	The Technical Basis for Decision Making	279
20	Towards a Social Index of Environmental Quality	300
21	Incidence of the Benefits and Costs of Environmental Programs	315
22	Forty Years of Cost-Benefit Analysis	323
23	The Lessons of Pesticide Regulation	340
24	Ethics, Economics, and the Environment	357
25	Why Benefit-Cost Analysis is Widely Disregarded and What To Do About It	372
26	Wassily Leontief's Contribution to Economics	379
27	A Nobel Quest for the Invisible Hand	399
28	The Discovery of Linear Programming	402
29	Comment: P. A. Samuelson, "Thunen at Two Hundred"	431
30	Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo	435
31	Austrian and American Capital Theories: A Contrast of Cultures	447
	Name index	461