| Description |
345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Benefit-Cost Analysis: Introduction and Overview -- 2. Investment Appraisal: Principles -- 3. Investment Appraisal: Decision-Rules -- 4. Private Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 5. Efficiency Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 6. Calculating the Net Benefits to the Referent Group -- 7. Consumer and Producer Surplus in Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 8. Valuing Traded and Non-traded Commodities in Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 9. Incorporating Risk in Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 10. The Social Discount Rate, Cost of Public Funds, and the Value of Information -- 11. Weighting Net Benefits to Account for Income Distribution -- 12. Valuation of Non-marketed Goods -- 13. Economic Impact Analysis -- 14. Writing the Benefit-Cost Analysis Report -- App. 2. Discount and Annuity Tables |
| Summary |
"The text is suitable for people with a basic understanding of elementary economics who wish to learn how to conduct a social benefit-cost analysis."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Audience |
For university students |
| Subject |
Cost effectiveness.
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Cost effectiveness -- Case studies.
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Electronic spreadsheets.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Brown, Richard P. C., 1951-
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| LC no. |
2003043902 |
| ISBN |
0521821460 |
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0521528984 (pb.) |
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0521528984 |
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