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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Adler, Matthew D. New foundations of cost-benefit analysis. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)646989785 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew D Adler; Eric A Posner |
| ISBN: | 0674022793 9780674022799 |
| OCLC Number: | 65187391 |
| Description: | x, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The traditional view -- The moral foundation of cost-benefit analysis -- Cost-benefit analysis as a decision procedure -- Political oversight -- Distorted preferences -- Objections. |
| Responsibility: | Matthew D. Adler, Eric A. Posner. |
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Abstract:
Reconceptualizes cost-benefit analysis, arguing that its objective should be overall well-being rather than economic efficiency. This work shows why the link between preferences and well-being is more complicated than economists have thought. It places cost-benefit analysis on a firmer theoretical foundation.
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- Cost effectiveness.
- Decision making.
- Public administration.
- Coût-efficacité
- Administration publique -- Prise de décision.
- Administration publique -- Productivité
- Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse.
- Wohlfahrtstheorie.
- Öffentliche Ausgaben.
- Verwaltung -- Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse.
- Nutzen-Kosten-Analyse.
- Entscheidungsfindung.
