Marginal Cost in the New Economy - A Proposal for a Uniform Approach to Policy Evaluations

Informationen zum Autor Roger L. Conkling Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Challenge to Orthodoxy; Chapter 2 Reflections on the Summers Thesis; Chapter 3 Marginal Costs and Marginalism; Chapter 4 Achieving Economic Efficiency in Regulated Pricing, Alfred E. Kahn; Chapter 5 School Vouchers; Chapter 6 Special Cases; Chapter 7 Antitrust; Chapter 8 Concluding Thoughts;

Product details

• Authors: Roger L Conkling, Roger L. Conkling, Conkling Roger L.
• Publisher: Sharpe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2004
• EAN: 9780765608505
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0850-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Economic Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, macroeconomics, Central / national / federal government policies, Microeconomics, Central government policies