Mark Leach, editor of higher education policy site Wonkhe, says it should be killed.
Part intended to be public rebuttal; part intended to be set up as a serious policy site.
Yet some contributors to a recent publication on the policy site VoxEU.org, titled "Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking," wonder whether Asia really can change its spots.
This study finds no basis for the claim that the reliability of benefit transfer increases with proximity between the study site where WTP estimates are taken from, and the policy site estimates are transferred to.
Mr. Leibowitz said that rules about the privacy policies of sites may need to be established.
Few places better symbolise a decades-old policy of siting plants in remote and poor locations with few economic options.
"If the easy things are this difficult," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.com, a military policy Web site, "the difficult things are going to be extraordinarily difficult".
This checking is done through "compact policies": lines of computer code (in this case, three- or four-letter codes) that reflect the content of the tomelike privacy policies that sites have written out in English.
"It's one of the minor mysteries of missile defense as to what the problem with this thing is," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense policy Web site.
