Full title: Cost-benefit analysis : an informal introduction / by E.J. Mishan.

Author/creator: Mishan, E. J. (Edward J.), 1917-.

Date: 1988..

Call Numbers: N658.1554/13

Record Identifier: 74Vvg62QooR3

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxx, 461 p. : ill. ; 22 cm., Cost-benefit studies--Consumers surplus--Rents and producers surpluses--Opportunity cost--Transfer payments and double counting--Shadow pricing--Cost-effective analysis versus cost-benefit analysis--External effects--Spillovers--Environmental spillovers--Cost-benefit criterion--Social rational of welfare economics--Pareto criterion--Consistency in project evaluation--Investment criteria--Present discounted value criterion--Discounted-present-value method--Public investment--Investment projects--Discounting over generational time--Problems in project evaluation--Pollution damage--Uncertainty--Game theory--Decision making--Economic surplus--Allocation distribution and equity.

Publishers: London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1988.

Notes: Previous ed.: 1982. Includes bibliographies and index.

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DDC: 658.1554

MMS ID: 991012205849702626