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Some Benefits and Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
The American administrative state has become a cost-benefit state, at least in the sense that prevailing executive orders require agencies to proceed only if the benefits justify the costs. Some people celebrate this development; others abhor it. For defenders of the cost-benefit state, the antonym of their ideal is, alternately, regulation based on ...
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The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

Environment and Development Economics, 1997
Among the tools of the economic trade, cost-benefit analysis is the most widely used in policy circles. Asking whether there is a role for cost-benefit analysis is like asking whether there is a role for the weatherman. Of course there is.
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Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Environment

Science, 1996
Letters from: [ James F. Kasting and Peter A. Schultz ][1] [ K. J. Arrow, M. L. Cropper, G. C. Eads, R. W. Hahn, L. B. Lave, R. G. Noll, P. R. Portney, M. Russell, R. Schmalensee, V. K. Smith, R. N. Stavins ][1] In their Policy Forum of 12 April ([p. 221][2]), Kenneth J.
J F, Kasting, P A, Schultz
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of the RFA

Science, 2006
The U.S. National Institutes of Health issues requests for applications (RFA) to solicit proposals on a specific topic. While a well-designed RFA can have significant benefit to the scientific enterprise and support the mission of the Institute, a poorly designed RFA can produce a significant ...
Norman J, Dovichi, Steven A, Soper
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A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Benefit-Cost Analysis

2023
Benefit/Cost Analysis (BCA) has a long history of being used as the primary tool aiding public decision-making. Two primary questions motivate this dissertation: 1. Do the results output by BCA add value and impact decision-making? and 2. Is BCA trustworthy enough that decision-makers should use it?
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment

Ethics, 2004
This review-essay explores the uses and limits of cost-benefit analysis in the context of environmental protection, focusing on three recent books: Priceless, by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling; Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and A Culture of Precaution, by Adam Burgess; and Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner.
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Educational Cost-benefit Analysis

Education Economics, 1994
This publication is one of a series of Education Papers issued from time to time by the Education Division of the Department for International Development. Each paper represents a study or commissioned research on some aspect of education and training in developing countries.
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On Justifying Cost‐Benefit Analysis

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000
Abstract This essay considers two problems in the justification of cost‐benefit analysis. First, it argues that because cost‐benefit analysis values policies, variation in imputed “values of life” are not, in theory, cause for concern. Second, it argues that the current framework of justification, which focuses on the moral justification of the formal ...
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