Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (3rd Edition)
Anthony BoardmanAnthony E. Boardman is the Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. His publications on cost-benefit analysis have appeared in many leading academic journals including theJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Annals of Regional Science,andthe Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice. He has also served as a consultant for the Treasury of New Zealand and all levels of government in Canada. David WeimerDavid L. Weimer is professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has published work involving the application of cost-benefit analysis to energy policy and the use of contingent valuation surveys.  He also has contributed entries on cost-benefit analysis to theInternationalEncyclopedia oftheSocial and Behavioral Sciencesand theNew Palgrave Dictionary of Economics(2nd edition).Aidan R. ViningAidan R. Vining is the CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) and holds a Ph.D. from the Goldman Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.  His articles related to cost-benefit analysis have appeared in a wide range of journals.  In addition to authoring these articles, Dr. Vining is the author ofPolicy Analysis; Concepts and Practicewith David Weimer (4th. Edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2005) and has recently co-editedBuilding the Future: Issues in Public Infrastructure in Canada(C.D. Howe) which analyzes the costs and benefits of major infrastructure projects in Canada.  Over the last twenty five years, he has taught numerous courses and seminars on cost-benefit analysis and policy analysis to government analysts in countries around the world David GreenbergDavid Greenberg is a professor emeritus of economics at theXML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1  /UniversityofMaryland Baltimore County(UMBC).  In 2002 he worked as a labor market analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit within the British Cabinet Office, helping design a random assignment evaluation of a pilot program that attempts to help retain disadvantaged workers in employment and aid their advancement and is currently working on the cost-benefit analysis of this pilot program.  In addition, he is presently responsible for the cost-benefit analyses of two on-goingU.K.programs: the New Deal for Disabled Persons and has taught a course in cost-benefit analysis at UMBC for many years.