Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis : tools of the trade /: tools of the trade. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Scott Farrow.
• Editors: Farrow, Scott
• Contents: Preface: Teaching benefit-cost analysis -- Part I: The big picture -- 1. Decision rules / William K. Bellinger -- 2. Triangles and all that / Arnold C. Harberger -- 3. Defining the baseline / Charles Griffiths and Chris Dockins -- 4. The concept of standing in benefit-cost analysis / Richard O. Zerbe -- 5. Partial equilibrium versus general equilibrium evaluations or small versus large projects / Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kristrom -- 6. BCA and US regulatory review: finding a market failure / Susan E. Dudley -- 7. The essentials: a short course for young professionals / Gelsomina Catalano and Massimo Florio -- Part II: Challenging concepts and examples -- 8. Valuing statistical lives / Lisa A. Robinson -- 9. The arithmetic of efficiency -- or the value of marginal analysis / John Mendeloff -- 10. Treatment of employing and disemploying workers / David Greenberg -- 11. Uncertainty and risk / Nicholas Treich -- 12. On defining and valuing the benefits of health policy interventions / David Salkever -- 13. Harmful addiction / David Weimer -- 14. Supplementing benefit-cost analysis: models for transport and land use decisions / Emile Quinet -- 15. Evaluating knowledge projects and r&d infrastructures with an example / Massimo Florio and Chiara Pancotti -- 16. Cost estimation in education: the ingredients method / Clive Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden and Henry M. Levin -- 17. Distributional accounting in benefit-cost analysis / Kerry Krutilla -- 18. Case studies in the classroom: lessons learned / Stuart Shapiro -- 19. Simulation: incorporating uncertainty / Scott Farrow -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.1552; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance; Teaching -- Cost effectiveness; Direct costing; Political planning; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Direct costing; Political planning; Environmental economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Finance -- Valuation; Public administration; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786435323; 1786435322
• Related ISBNs: 9781786435316
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018).
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