Cost-Benefit Analysis / Edition 2

by Richard Layard, Stephen Glaister

Overview

This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area. Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis. Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521466745
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/30/1994
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	508
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.57(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction; Part II. Theoretical Issues: 1. Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices J. Drèze and N. Stern; 2. Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange shadow wages A. K. Sen; 3. The rate of discount for cost benefit analysis and the theory of the second best J. E. Stiglitz; 4. Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions K. J. Arrow and R. C. Lind; 5. Allowing for income distributions R. Layard and A. A. Walters; 6. Project appraisal and planning twenty years on I. M. D. Little and J. A. Mirrlees; Part III. How to Value Things: 7. Research into the value of time The MVA Consultancy et al.; 8. The theory of equalising differences S. Rosen; 9. The economics of safety and physical risk M. W. Jones-Lee; 10. The environment and emerging development issues P. Dasgupta and K. Maler; 11. Resource depletion, research and development, and the social rate of discount P. Dasgupta; Part IV. Case Studies: 12. Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system S. A. Morrison and C. Winston; 13. Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads D. Newbery; 14. The allocation of urban transport subsidy S. Glaister; 15. QUALYs and equity-efficiency tradeoff A. Wagstaff; 16. Water vending activities in developing countries D. Whittington, D. T. Lauria, D. A. Okun and X. Mu; 17. Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry D. W. Pearce.

Editorial Reviews

'The introduction is an excellent review of the basic principles of cost benefit analysis, and the readings are definitive. An excellent basis for a course.' Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University

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