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If you're going to question results published by a respected academic in a peer-reviewed journal, you really should mention that the results were published by a

If you're going to question results published by a respected academic in a peer-reviewed journal, you really should mention that the results were published by a respected academic in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study by Sanjay Varshney, dean of the College of Business Administration at California State University in Sacramento, estimates that the cost of state regulations in 2007 reached an average of $134,122 per small business—the equivalent of one job lost per company You could talk about their data or their survey methodology, but you sound like you're just scoffing because you don't like their conclusions.

abstractbill 16y ago
No, I'm pointing out that the paragraph in the original article doesn't seem to add up. $134,122 is apparently the equivalent of one lost job. But that's not anywhere near the right figure for a minimum wage manufacturing job.
_delirium 16y ago
It doesn't appear to have been published in a peer-reviewed journal, fwiw, and he carried it out not in his capacity as professor, but in his capacity as owner of the consulting firm Varshney and Associates, which was paid for doing the study. Doesn't make it wrong, but those two factors do make me give it somewhat less weight. Here's a copy: http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/5/pdf/CostofRegulationStudyFinal.pdf http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/5/pdf/CostofRegulationStudyFina...