Cost-Benefit Analysis

Höfundar: Richard Layard; Stephen Glaister (Útgáfa: 2)
Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Should India build a new steel mill, or London an urban motorway? Should higher education expand, or water supplies be improved? These are typical questions about which cost-benefit analysis has something to say. It is the main tool that economics provides for analysing problems of social choice. It also provides a useful vehicle for understanding the practical value of welfare economics. This new book of readings covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780511885280
Print ISBN
9780521466745
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Richard Layard; Stephen Glaister
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
1994-06-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10

Kaflar

  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Theoretical Issues
  • 1. Shadow prices and markets: Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices
  • 2. Shadow prices and markets: Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages
  • 3. Discount rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best
  • 4. Risk and uncertainty: Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions
  • 5. Income distribution: Allowing for income distribution
  • 6. The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on
  • Part II How To Value Things
  • 7. Time savings: Research into the value of time The MVA Consutancy et al.
  • 8. Safety and the saving of life: The theory of equalizing differences
  • 9. Safety and the saving of life: The economics of safety and physical risk
  • 10. The environment: The environment and emerging development issues
  • 11. Exhaustible resources: Resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of disco
  • Part III Case Studies
  • 12. Regulation and deregulation: Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation sys
  • 13. Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads
  • 14. Public transport: The allocation of urban public transport subsidy
  • 15. Health care: QALYs and the equity-efficiency tradeoff
  • 16. Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries
  • 17. The environment: Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry
  • Index