Cost-Benefit Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer | Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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CostBenefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of costbenefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on costbenefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

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Hardcover
ISBN 9781108415996
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ISBN 9781108401296

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CostBenefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of costbenefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on costbenefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

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CostBenefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of costbenefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on costbenefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Cost-Benefit Analysis?

Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Finance and accounting > Accounting > Cost accounting

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Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer

Who is the Publisher of the book Cost-Benefit Analysis?

Cambridge University Press

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Cost-Benefit Analysis is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781108415996) and paperback(ISBN 9781108401296)