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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138875703321

Titolo

Cost-benefit analysis and public policy / / David L. Weimer, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Chichester, England] : , : [Wiley-Blackwell], , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-282-17165-8

9786612171659

1-4443-0717-7

1-4443-0718-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Disciplina

320.6

352.43

Soggetti

Cost effectiveness

Policy sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy; Discounting for Time; Risk and the ''Value of Life''; Non-Use Value as a Benefit Category; CBA in Administrative and Legal Context; CBA Applications; Preface; Introduction; David L. Weimer, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy; The Issue of Standing; Whittington, D., & MacRae, D., Jr. (1986). The issue of standing in cost-benefit analysis. JPAM, 5(4), 665-82.; MacRae, D., Jr, & Whittington, D. (1988) Assessing preferences in cost-benefit analysis: Reflections on rural water supply evaluation in Haiti. JPAM, 7(2), 246-63.

Trumbull, W. N. (1990). Who has standing in cost-benefit analysis? JPAM, 9(2), 201-18.Whittington, D., & MacRae, D., Jr. (1990). Comment: Judgments about who has standing in cost-benefit analysis. JPAM, 9(4), 536-47.; Trumbull, W. N. (1990). Reply to Whittington and MacRae. JPAM, 9(4), 548-50.; Zerbe, R. O., Jr. (1991). Comment: Does benefit-cost analysis stand alone? Rights and standing. JPAM, 10(1), 96-105.; Brown, P. G. (1988). Policy analysis, welfare economics, and the



greenhouse effect. JPAM, 7(3), 471-75.

Kolb, J. A., & Scheraga, J. D. (1990). Discounting the benefits and costs of environmental regulations. JPAM, 9(3), 381-90.Metcalf, G. E., & Rosenthal, D. (1995). The ''new'' view of investment decisions and public policy analysis: An application to green lights and cold refrigerators. JPAM, 14(4), 517-31.; Moore, M. A., Boardman, A. E., Vining, A. R., Weimer, D. L., & Greenberg, D. H. (2004). ''Just give me a number!'' Practical values for the social discount rate. JPAM, 23(4), 789-812.

Moore, M. J., & Viscusi, W. K. (1988). Doubling the estimated value of life: Results from new occupational fatality data. JPAM, 7(3), 476-90.Fisher, A., Chestnut, L. G., & Violette, D. M. (1989). The value of reducing risks of death: A note on new evidence. JPAM, 8(1), 88-100.; Knetsch, J. L. (1995). Assumptions, behavioral findings, and policy analysis. JPAM, 14(1), 68-78.; Mrozek, J. R., & Taylor, L. O. (2002). What determines the value of life: A meta-analysis. JPAM, 21(2), 253-70.

Hammitt, J. K. (2002). Understanding differences in estimates of the value of mortality risk. JPAM, 21(2), 271-73.Krupnick, A. (2002). The value of reducing risk of death: A policy perspective. JPAM, 21(2), 275-82.; Rosenthal, D. H., & Nelson, R. H. (1992). Why existence value should not be used in cost-benefit analysis. JPAM, 11(1), 116-22.; Kopp, R. J. (1992). Why existence value should be used in cost-benefit analysis. JPAM, 11(1), 123-30.; Quiggin, J. (1993). Existence value and benefit-cost analysis: A third view. JPAM, 12(1), 195-99.

Smith, V. K. (1993). Rethinking the rithmetic of damage assessment. JPAM, 12(3), 589-95.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume seeks to facilitate such exposure by drawing together into a convenient collection the fine articles on CBA and its application that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).