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

• Pubblicazione: [Chichester, England] : , : [Wiley-Blackwell], , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.6; 352.43
• Soggetto topico: Cost effectiveness; Policy sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): WeimerDavid Leo
• 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Cost-benefit analysis and public policy
• ISBN: 1-282-17165-8; 9786612171659; 1-4443-0717-7; 1-4443-0718-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830200803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Classics