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101 Econ Lecture 13 Markets allocate scarce goods and services on the basis of willingness to pay. Similarly, cost-benefit analysis resolves public decisions on the basis of willingness to pay. Is that a good thing to do? Doesn't willingness-to-pay unfairly disadvantage those who don't have much money? Example 13.1. A public radio station currently offers all-music programming. A proposal has been introduced to switch the station's format to all talk. All community residents are neutral with respect to this proposal except for the following three: A rich resident (R), who favors the proposal; and two poor residents (P1 and P2), who oppose it. Each of these three feels equally strongly about the issue. But because R is wealthy, he is willing to pay $1000 to see the switch enacted, while P1 and P2 are willing to pay only $100 each to prevent it. Should the switch be made? Cost-benefit analysis says to make the switch, because the benefit ($1000) exceeds the cost ($200). Is willingness to pay (WTP) the right basis for making such decisions? Many social critics say no, that WTP gives unfair decision weight to the preferences of the wealthy. Recent Presidential executive orders in the US, for example, have directed agencies to temper cost-benefit calculations with "distributional concerns." These orders militate against making the format switch. Yet both rich and poor would benefit if we resolved all such cases on the basis of pure, unweighted willingness to pay, using the tax and transfer system to compensate those who would be hurt in the process. For instance, raise R's taxes by $500, reduce those of P1 and P2 by $250 each. Compared to the status quo, R has net gain of $500,while P1 and P2 each reap a net gain of $150. Example 13.2. City Lights Antiques has a 1905 Stickley grandfather clock on display in its showroom. Susan, a fourth grade teacher and an aficionado of early 20th century grandfather clocks, would LOVE to own it. Malcolm, a personal injury lawyer, has no particular interest in clocks--from that period or any other. But he happened to see the Stickley as he walked by and thought it might look nice in his office waiting room. Susan, a single mother of two who earns $28,000/yr, is willing to pay up to $5000 for the clock. Malcolm earns $950,000/yr and is willing to pay $10,000 for it. Who "should" get the clock? The attraction of willingness to pay Yes, Susan would enjoy the clock more than Malcolm would. But because of her relatively low income, she also values other things that money can buy more highly than Malcolm does. If she were given the clock, her best option would be to sell it to Malcolm. Suppose Malcolm buys it from her for $8000. Since the clock was worth "only" $5000 to her, Susan can now buy goods and services that are worth $3000 more to her than the clock. Taking the initial distribution of income as given, the best attainable outcome entails Malcolm getting the clock. If you think the distribution of income is problematic, try to change it. Meanwhile, allocating the clock to the highest bidder is the best we can do. Using unweighted willingness to pay results in the largest possible economic pie. When the pie is bigger, everyone can have a larger slice. 1 2 Total surplus with unweighted willingness to pay Total surplus with weighted willingness to pay Example 13.3. 260 people show up for a flight from New York to LA that has only 250 seats. John was the second passenger to arrive. An office custodian on his way to visit his seriously ill mother, he would have to wait 10 hours for the next available seat to LA. He would be willing to pay $200 to avoid missing the flight. Eric was the 255th passenger to arrive (because of a delayed connection to NY). A Microsoft vice-president, he can reach his vacation destination in Hawaii via Seattle with only one hour's delay. He is willing to pay $1000 to avoid missing the flight. Who "should" miss the flight? Total wealth is maximized if scarce seats on overbooked flights are allocated on the basis of unweighted willingness to pay. Pre-1979, seats on overbooked flights were allocated by airlines on a first-come, first-served basis. Some of those forced to wait suffered large losses (as measured by WTP), while many others had no pressing reasons to arrive on time (again as measured by WTP). 1979: Civil Aeronautics Board proposed a new rule that would require carriers to offer cash payments or free tickets to induce volunteers to wait for the next available flight. Ralph Nader's Aviation Consumer Action Project (ACAP) promptly filed a vociferous objection. If the new rule were adopted, the burden of waiting would fall disproportionately on the poor. In yet another domain, people with diminished ability to pay would get short shrift. Poor airline passenger: "Run that by me again, Ralph: How, exactly, are you protecting my interests by denying me the option of volunteering to earn $400 by waiting?" Example 13.4. Illinois needs a new maximum security prison. Two locations under consideration: Dixon, average income $100,000/yr. Moline, average income $22,000/yr. Neither community wants the prison. Dixon residents are collectively willing to pay $1 million to avoid it. Moline residents collectively willing to pay only $100,000 to avoid it. Where should the prison be built? Build the prison in Moline, levy $200,000 in supplemental taxes on Dixon residents; reduce taxes by $200,000 in Moline. Former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill: The business of government is to make rules that foster the creation of wealth. Government has absolutely no business redistributing wealth from rich to poor. "I don't believe this society should still be operating with a robber baron premise as the basis for how we discuss public policy. I think it is really corrosive to have this argument about the rich and the poor. It's not worthy of where we are in our development as a country." O'Neill and other supply-siders invoke the writings of Richard Posner, one of the founders of the law and economics movement: Legislators should be concerned principally with protecting people's ability to bargain freely, and not with redistributing wealth. Indeed, redistribution actually decreases total social wealth, since it takes something from those who value it and puts it in the service of those who, not having transacted for it, will not feel the market pressures to wring the most efficient use out of it. Posner and O'Neill miss important parts of the picture. In a democracy, single-minded insistence on the illegitimacy of redistribution actually prevents actions that would increase total Recall wealth. Example 13.1. R is willing to pay $1000 for the switch from all music to all talk. P1 and P2 are willing to pay only $100 each to prevent the switch. If redistribution is ruled out and we settle the issue democratically, the switch loses, two votes to one. But a better outcome is to redistribute and make the switch. For example, raise R's taxes by $500, reduce those of P1 and P2 by $250 each. Compared to the status quo, R has net gain of $500,while P1 and P2 each reap a net gain of $150. Refusal to redistribute makes the economic pie smaller. Example 13.5. The energy crisis of 1979 led President Carter to propose a 50-cent per gallon tax on gasoline to cut dependence on foreign oil. Critics: Unacceptable hardship on the poor! Carter response: Cut payroll taxes by the same amount as the amount raised in additional gasoline taxes. Plan was never enacted, partly because critics failed to grasp why it would reduce gas consumption. Instead, gasoline price controls were adopted to ease the burden on the poor. Carter's proposal would have been better for both rich and poor. Further Examples of Inefficient Responses to Distributional Concerns Rent control laws Farm price supports Special access or lifeline rates for public utilities Environmental exemptions for older vehicles Reluctance to adopt congestion pricing "Free" directory assistance Prior to 1976, calls to directory assistance operators were provide free of charge in New York State, as they continue to be today in many other states. This policy was inefficient, because it resulted in many calls whose costs exceeded their benefits. In 1976 the New York Public Service Commission proposed that a charge of ten cents per directory-assistance call be added to each subscriber's monthly bill. This proposal was bitterly opposed by public interest groups, who insisted that it would weaken relationships in the community by disrupting essential patterns of communications. Kahn's solution: B = -$0.30 + $0.10 D If willingness to pay is so great, why do people object to its use? Objection 1. There are thousands of public decisions made every day. It is impractical to assess the distributional consequences of each one and arrange for the necessary transfers. Compensation can sometimes be geared to specific cases: Negative-intercept term in directory assistance billing equation. Granting transferable rights to the status quo ante. Denied boarding compensation Vouchers to help landlords buy tenants out of rent-controlled leases. Auctions to determine the siting of prisons and other unattractive facilities Still, case-by-case compensation has practical limits. But the distributional issue arises in the same form in virtually every potential application of cost-benefit analysis. The problem is that using unweighted willingness to pay biases outcomes in favor of high-income taxpayers generally. This problem has a simple solution: Compensate not case-by-case but once for all, but making the tax and transfer system more progressive. Give the poor whatever transfers society deems fit in the name of distributive justice, plus an additional amount to compensate for the use of unweighted willingness to pay in cost benefit analysis. Relative to abandoning willingness-to-pay for public decisions, this move would create net benefits for rich and poor alike. Objection 2. "Cost benefit analysis with compensation is fine in principle, but realists know that in practice the poor never get compensated, because of their lack of political power." True, political influence grows with wealth. But the claim that we should abandon willingness to pay to protect the interests of the non-wealthy is interesting only if the non-wealthy or their defenders have the political power to force that outcome. In a democracy that is a fair assumption. In the radio format case, the two poor citizens can vote down the proposal of the wealthy citizen. So if the poor have the political power to block the use of willingness to pay, why don't they use that power to bargain for sufficient transfers to compensate for agreeing to the use of willingness to pay? One possibility: The public may tolerate inefficient transfers that are inconspicuous, yet resist efficient transfers that are highly visible. Canadian trucking rights French diesel subsidies Farm price supports But not always, as in the recent adoption of payments to farmers for acreage retired from cultivation. Indirect incentive problem: Perhaps the level of transfers required to secure agreement on efficiency is simply unpalatable. Milton Friedman's negative income tax (NIT) Public Employment for the Poor JOBS: government sponsored jobs that pay wages in return for the performance of useful work. Completely solves the incentive problem. Criticisms of JOBS: People will leave private jobs for government jobs, thus making the program too expensive. Unattractiveness of make-work jobs Bureaucratic inefficiency A Combination of NIT and JOBS Too many people leave private jobs? Set JOBS wage well below minimum wage. Bureaucratic inefficiency? Solicit bids from private contractors to manage JOBS program. Make-work jobs? Landscaping and maintenance in parks Transport the elderly and handicapped Fill potholes in city streets Replace burned out street lamps Transplant seedlings in erosion control projects Remove graffiti from public places Paint government buildings Recycle newspapers and aluminum and glass containers Staff day care centers Make NIT grant too small to live on. Poverty Threshold NIT NIT + Public Job Public Job NIT + Private Job A NIT with a cash grant far too small to live on would not encourage people to drop out of the labor force. Nor would a government-sponsored job at sub-minimum wages lure productively employed workers out of private sector jobs. But the combined income from both programs would be sufficient to lift people above the poverty threshold. The low pay in public jobs, participants would maintain incentives to continue searching for jobs in the private sector. Again, the problem confronting the poor is that they have too little money. The simplest solution: Give them more money. Politically palatable redistribution methods exist. Again, when the pie is bigger, everyone can have a larger slice. Rather than using decision rules that make the total pie smaller, we should give the poor more money and use unweighted willingness to pay in cost-benefit analysis. So why don't we do it? 1. The argument is flawed. 2. The argument is sound, but people just don't understand it yet. The history of tradable emissions permit proposals.
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Path: Texas A&M >> ENGL >> 1301 Spring, 2008
Description: Smith 6 Work Cited Cheney, Dick. \"National Energy Policy: Reliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound Energy for America\'s Future.\" The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing. Eds. John D. Ramage, John C. Bean, and June Johnson. New York: Pearson Educati...
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Path: Texas A&M >> ENGL >> 1301 Spring, 2008
Description: Smith 1 Sam Smith Professor Otto English 1301 6-17-2007 Exceeding Expectations What person does not enjoy music? Certainly different people enjoy multifarious genres and styles and to varying extents. However, I might say that my own interest in musi...
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Path: Texas A&M >> ENGL >> 1301 Spring, 2008
Description: Smith 6 Work Cited Lancaster, Tyler. Personal interview. 16 June. 2007. Scofield Study Bible, The. C.I. Scofield, editor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. Teague, Jonathan. Personal interview. 16 June. 2007. Tomlin, Chris. \"Not To Us.\" Not T...
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Path: Cornell >> PHYS >> 1112 Spring, 2007
Description: Monday Apr 2, 2007 Angular Momentum Read: (Today) 10.5 (Wednesday) 11.1-11.3 Homework 10: Due Monday April 9 Prelim 2: Thursday Chapters 6,7,8,9 Bring 1/2 page formula sheet Bring pencils, pens, ruler, protractor ...
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Path: Cornell >> PHYS >> 1112 Spring, 2007
Description: Wednesday Apr 4, 2007 Statics I Read: (Today) 11.1-11.3 (Friday) 11.3 Homework 10: Due Monday April 9 Prelim 2: Tomorrow Chapters 6,7,8,9 Bring 1/2 page formula sheet Bring pencils, pens, ruler, protractor ...
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Path: Cornell >> PHYS >> 1112 Spring, 2007
Description: Monday Apr 9, 2007 Statics II Read: (Today) 11.3 (Wednesday) 10.4, 10.5 Homework 10: Due Today Homework 11: Due Friday Lab 7: This Week Recitation: Bring Tutorial Book ...
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Path: Cornell >> PHYS >> 1112 Spring, 2007
Description: Wednesday Apr 11, 2007 Angular Momentum Gyroscopes Read: (Today) 10.6-10.7 (Friday) 12.5 Homework 11: Due Friday Lab 7: This Week Recitation: Bring Tutorial Book Lab 8: Next Week Pick up Prelab ...
