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THE ECONOMICS OF HOMELAND SECURITY EXPENDITURES: FOUNDATIONAL EXPECTED COST‐EFFECTIVENESS APPROACHES
Author(s) -
FARROW SCOTT
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2006.00029.x
Subject(s) - homeland security , government (linguistics) , relevance (law) , economics , false positive paradox , homeland , accountability , marginal utility , value (mathematics) , public economics , marginal cost , microeconomics , computer science , terrorism , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , politics
While most economists expect some marginal conditions to result from basic expected value models involving government expenditures and homeland security investments, such models are not readily found in the literature. The article presents six basic models that all incorporate uncertainty; they also capture various problems involving technological limits, behavioral interactions, false negatives and false positives, and decision making with uncertainty and irreversibility. Recent reviews of homeland security programs by the U.S. Government Accountability Office are used to illustrate the relevance of the models. ( JEL H100)