Politics

Rural Reform in Centropico (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This case illustrates the opportunities and difficulties posed in envisioning a strategy to enact and implement land reform policy in the complex political environment of a developing country. Professor Donna Lawrence, an American expert on...

Rural Reform in Centropico (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This case illustrates the opportunities and difficulties posed in envisioning a strategy to enact and implement land reform policy in the complex political environment of a developing country. Professor Donna Lawrence, an American expert on...

Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In March 1985, Ford and General Motors asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reduce federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards from 27.5 miles per gallon to 26 mpg for the 1986 model year. For the first time...

General Motors and the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In 1984, General Motors Corporation was headed for a potentially expensive collision with federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards. GM had exceeded the steadily increasing standards in the program's early years, when high gasoline...

Deciding to Use Force in Grenada

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In late October 1983, United States military forces landed on the Caribbean island-nation of Grenada—the first time U.S. forces had intervened in their own hemisphere in a generation. The United States' immediate concern was the safety of...

California Water Pricing

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In many parts of California, water districts set prices so that agricultural users pay far less than residential users and far less than the true cost of water. While the adoption of a marginal cost pricing system would bring enormous efficiency...

Saving the Tuolumne (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of their long-standing proposal to dam the Tuolumne River for power and water. At the same time,...

Saving the Tuolumne

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of their long-standing proposal to dam the Tuolumne River for power and water. At the same time,...

Controlling Acid Rain, 1986

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case is designed to support a discussion of how to apply an economic evaluation of the appropriate level of control of an externality to a real problem with incomplete information of uncertain quality and high political stakes. It sketches...

George Shultz and the Polygraph Test

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

Shortly before Christmas 1985, Secretary of State George Shultz publicly threatened to resign over a pending administration directive that would have required thousands of government employees with access to highly classified information to...

Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...

Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...