http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78367 2013-05-22T03:45:40Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89426 Human Rights: From Practice to Policy Waltz, Susan This volume documents an extended conversation among nearly a dozen distinguished practitioners of human rights and leading scholars of the human rights movement, retrospectively exploring the impact of major human rights organizations on the construction of international human rights norms and standards. 2011-12-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78190 PubPol 580 - Values, Ethics, and Public Policy, Fall 2009 Chamberlin, John This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped by politics. Topics covered include the tensions between ethics and politics, an introduction to various moral theories that figure in contemporary policy debates, a consideration of the principal values that animate American politics, and issues and dilemmas in professional ethics. The course addresses issues that affect international as well as U.S. policy and politics. 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78183 Tom Sawyer production on the Internet: Getting the good stuff in, keeping the bad stuff out MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. User-contributed content as an input to the production of information services is not new, but it is growing rapidly in significance and prevalence. Open-source software, Wikipedia, and Flickr are but a few examples of the variety of information products and services relying on user-contributed content. I propose a characterization of user-contributed content, and identify contributor behavior issues critical for success. From the perspective of an information service provider, or the economy as a whole, these issues predict underprovision of content, inefficient mixes of quality and variety, and undesirable levels of content pollution. How might we design information services or systems to ameliorate these problems? Given the centrality of autonomous, motivated human behavior in user-contributed content problems, I argue this is a problem for \emph{incentive-centered design}: how to configure economic, social and psychological incentives to induce contribution, discourage pollution, and motivate sufficient effort to generate quality? To illustrate, for a content pollution problem loosely based on a popular Web site's experience, I offer a stylized mechanism that relies on user-contributed (meta)content to screen out polluting contributions. 2010-10-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78167 Trade in Financial Services – Has the IMF Been Involved Constructively? Stern, Robert M. This paper considers the key policy issues related to liberalization of trade in financial services that the IMF should be concerned with, and the role the IMF has played in advising on policies related to trade in financial services in its bilateral and multilateral surveillance and conditionality attached to lending programs. IMF staff were generally aware of the literature and country experiences showing the benefits of financial liberalization. But Fund advice in support of liberalization can be best interpreted to be in support of country unilateral policy actions and the dynamics of the WTO accession process. 2010-10-20T00:00:00Z