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Cost-Benefit Analysis
β Scribed by D. W. Pearce (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 122
- Series
- Studies in Economics
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis....Pages 1-13
The Origins of Cost-Benefit Analysis....Pages 14-24
The Measurement of Costs and Benefits....Pages 25-36
Time, Discounting and Decision Rules....Pages 37-58
Efficiency and Distributive Weights....Pages 59-72
Risk and Uncertainty....Pages 73-89
A Case Study: The Gordon-below-Franklin Dam....Pages 90-105
Back Matter....Pages 106-112
β¦ Subjects
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Operation Research/Decision Theory
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