Cost-Benefit Analysis

Mishan, E. J. (1971). Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Introduction. Praeger Publishers.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1971

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4875209M

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economics_finance

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• Cost–Benefit Analysis
  • … the Kaldor-Hicks compensation-criterion foundation (Kaldor 1939 , Hicks 1939 ); the Harberger-triangle analysis of deadweight loss (Harberger 1954); U.S. regulatory-CBA institutionalization beginning with Reagan's EO 12291 (1981) and extended through subsequent administrations; Mishan's 1971 Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Opportunity Cost
  • A cost-benefit analysis of a new highway must include the opportunity cost: what is the next-best use of the $1B capital and the land, and how does the highway's benefit compare?

    This sourceComprehensive systematic textbook of CBA methodology; influential in institutionalizing CBA frameworks across applied policy analysis.

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