Cost-Benefit Analysis for Public Sector Decision Makers

Name: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Public Sector Decision Makers
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ISBN: 9781567202229

ISBN-10: 1567202225

ISBN-13: 9781567202229

Edition: 1999

Authors: Diana Fuguitt, Shanton J. Wilcox

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Fuguitt and Wilcox skillfully guide analysts, public sector managers, and students of decision-making through a full range of the essential steps to perform, interpret, and assess cost-benefit analysis. Their book shows how to grasp the principles of cost-benefit analysis and several related economic valuation methods, how to apply them in undertaking an objective analysis, and how to use the analysis as a decision-making tool across a wide range of fields and applications. An extensive knowledge of economic theory, calculus or advanced graphical analysis is not needed to understand the principles or techniques. Accessible to those who understand basic algebra and have a beginner's hold on…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Cost-Benefit Analysis in Practice


A History of Application


The Decision Maker


Analyst and Cost-Benefit


Analysis Policy Advocates and Adversaries


Scrutiny and Accountability


How to Do Cost-Benefit Analysis


Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis


Economic Valuation of Individual Preferences


Who Is Society?


"With and Without"


Analysis Aggregate Benefits and Costs


Present Value of Benefits and Costs


Distributed Over Time Decision Criteria


Discount Rate Inflation Time


Horizon Uncertainty and Risk Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis


Benefits and Costs


Identification and Valuation


Identifying Benefits and Costs Market Valuation


Contingent Valuation Method


Travel Cost Method


Hedonic Pricing Method


Property Value


Approach Valuation of Human Life Cost-Effectiveness


Analysis Principles for Identifying and Valuing


Benefits and Costs