Cost-Benefit Analysis - Theory and Application

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application, Second Edition provides exposure to welfare economic theory and a comprehensive framework for conducting a complete and theoretically consistent project analysis.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Efficiency Norm: Pareto Optimality
3. Economic Efficiency and the Market Mechanism
4. Economic Efficiency and Public Goods
5. Economic Efficiency in the Presence of Externalities
6. Collective Decision Making
7. Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis
8. Allocational Effects of Public Projects
9. Measuring Costs and Benefits
10. Nonmarket Valuation
11. Investment Criteria and Project Selection
12. The Choice of Discount Rate
13. Income Distribution as an Evaluation Criterion
14. Applications of Cost-Benefit Analysis
15. Evaluation Issues in Environmental Studies
16. Evaluation Studies: Health Care
17. CBA in a Developing Country Context

About the author

Tevfik F. Nas is professor of economics at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Summary

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application, Second Edition provides exposure to welfare economic theory and a comprehensive framework for conducting a complete and theoretically consistent project analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Tevfik Nas, Tevfik F. Nas, Nas Tevfik F.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498522526
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2252-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance / General, Corporate Finance, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Management decision making, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Economic theory and philosophy