Cost-Benefit Analysis

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.

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