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Genre/Form: | Kongress Konferenzschrift |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew D Adler; Eric A Posner |
ISBN: | 0226007626 9780226007625 0226007634 9780226007632 |
OCLC Number: | 45575386 |
Description: | v, 351 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Risk equity / by W. Kip Viscusi -- State and federal regulatory reform: a comparative analysis / By Robert W. Hahn -- Why is cost-benefit analysis so controversial? / By Robert H. Frank -- The discipline of cost-benefit analysis / By Amartya Sen -- Cost-benefit analysis and population / By John Broome -- The stupidity of the cost-benefit standard / By Henry S. Richardson. The costs of tragedy: some moral limits of cost-benefit analysis / By Martha C. Nussbaum -- On justifying cost-benefit analysis / By Lewis A. Kornhauser -- Cognition and cost-benefit analysis / By Cass R. Sunstein -- Implementing cost-benefit analysis when preferences are distorted / By Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner -- A comment on the conference on cost-benefit analysis / By Gary S. Becker -- Cost-benefit analysis: definition, justification, and comment on conference papers / By Richard A. Posner. |
Responsibility: | edited by Matthew D. Alder and Eric A. Posner. |
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Abstract:
Cost-benefit analysis is a widely used governmental evaluation tool, though academics remain skeptical. This volume gathers prominent contributors for discussion of cost-benefit analysis, specifically its moral foundations, applications and limitations.
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