Cost-benefit analysis
Subtitle: an informal introduction
By: by E.J. Mishan. --
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London ; Boston
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Cost effectiveness.; Expenditures, Public.; Welfare economics.
Description: This new edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded and updated. In particular, it contains an entirely new section on the Selection of Cost-Benefit Criteria which illuminates the basic rationale of the economic calculus. In addition, the second half of the section on Investment Criteria has been radically altered to produce a more crisp and lucid treatment of the essentials. It contains a general critique of the DPV method with regard to the more recent contributions to this controversial literature. Finally this new section tackles the inter-generation problem involved in long-term projects, a problem that has so far been evaded in the literature on investment criteria.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.

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