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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460640003321

Autore

Conkling Roger L. <1917-, >

Titolo

Marginal cost in the new economy : a proposal for a uniform approach to policy evaluations / / Roger L. Conkling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015, c2004

ISBN

1-315-70256-8

1-317-46522-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

338.5/1

Soggetti

Direct costing

Policy sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The challenge to orthodoxy -- 2. Reflections on the summers thesis -- 3. Marginal costs and marginalism : background and application -- 4. Achieving economic efficiency in regulated pricing, as framed by Alfred E. Kahn -- 5. School vouchers : an illustration of the methodology -- 6. Special cases : mixed issues/mixed methodologies -- 7. Antitrust -- 8. Concluding thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents an approach for resolving a variety of public policy debates. It proposes that a single standard - marginal cost methodology - be adopted to replace the haphazard arrays of methods and techniques currenly employed to measure the costs and benefits of disputed policy issues.