America may change its mind when the social costs of ending benefits become apparent.
Singapore has none of the collateral damage and social costs associated with drug abuse.
Given these social costs, it seems reasonable to tax petrol to discourage its use.
Instead, she thinks, governments would do better to heed western studies into the social costs of gambling.
First let us look in a little more detail at the economic and social costs of this crisis.
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Both impose social costs on their own, but in combination they create a perfect storm of wealth destruction.
The risks from drilling mean the social costs exceed the private costs, so policy should raise the private costs.
Changes in zoning and building codes continue to transfer many infrastructure and social costs from the public to developers.
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Yet every dollar spent on drug-abuse treatment could save as much as seven times that in medical and social costs.
But addiction can also inflict misery on the families and especially the children of any addict, and involves wider social costs.
In America, tax and regulations were conceived with an eye towards mitigating the social costs of gambling, rather than fostering competition.
Yet for all its work, the commission dodged the most fundamental question: do the social costs of gambling outweigh the benefits?
The social costs of family breakdown, welfare dependency, educational failure, crime, anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction are impossible to calculate.
There are social benefits and social costs for stating your opinion openly.
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What is the symptomology of petroaddiction, and what are its social costs?
If they do, they will find that much to their surprise, the social costs of actions will be far smaller than they expected.
The fact that Mr Blair is from the left has prompted the hope that the social costs of such reforms might be manageable.
But there are long-term social costs to this extended income drought.
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One-half of those who die from chronic diseases are in their productive years and so the social costs and economic consequences in terms of lost productivity are considerable.
It would have huge social costs in a financial meltdown.
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While cars have social benefits, there are also social costs.
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The summary is this: Far too many people in the UK drink too much, burdening the state and society with the social costs of hooliganism and the health costs of alcoholism.
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There's really little that can be done to stop the current trend of outsourcing manufacturing to China, as most corporations are still not tending seriously to the social costs of their actions.
Strait-laced Omaha, which has no casino gambling, pays many of the social costs of having casinos just across the Missouri river in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while sharing none of the tax revenues.
Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
The economic and social costs from this myopic fiscal policy were well learned and helped guide the sustained pragmatic fiscal policy effort of the past decade in countries like Brazil, though much of it was forced on them by the International Monetary Fund bailouts and resulting conditions of those bailouts at the time.
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As we begin to calculate the enormous health care and social costs of climate change, health care professionals are in a position to educate their patients about the public health impacts of climate change and help prepare them for these impacts, and also become potent spokespersons for policies at all levels of government that would rein in climate change.
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In July 2011 the commission chaired by Andrew Dilnot recommended individual's contribution towards their social care costs should be capped.
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