Pearson new international edition: cost-benefit analysis concepts and practice

✍ Scribed by Boardman, Anthony E;Vining, Aidan R;Greenberg, David H;Weimer, David L

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Series: Pearson custom library
• Edition: 4th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in cost-benefit analysis. A practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. This authoritative, market-leading text is known for its consistent application of a nine-step framework for conducting or interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition includes a number of chapters that have been revised and reorganized to make the material clearer and more accessible.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis......Page 6
2. Conceptual Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis......Page 32
3. Microeconomic Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis......Page 59
4. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Primary Markets......Page 87
5. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Secondary Markets......Page 124
6. Discounting Benefits and Costs in Future Time Periods......Page 142
7. Dealing with Uncertainty: Expected Values, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Value of Information......Page 176
8. Option Price and Option Value......Page 213
10. The Social Discount Rate......Page 253
11. Predicting and Monetizing Impacts......Page 291
12. Valuing Impacts From Observed Behavior: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments......Page 307
13. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation of Demand Curves......Page 341
14. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Indirect Market Methods......Page 362
15. Shadow Prices from Secondary Sources......Page 395
16. Shadow Prices: Applications to Developing Countries......Page 432
17. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis......Page 455
18. Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis......Page 480
C......Page 498
D......Page 499
F......Page 500
J......Page 501
P......Page 502
R......Page 503
T......Page 504
Y......Page 505

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Economics