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Benefit-Cost Analysis: Do The Benefits Exceed The Costs?

1996
Abstract Many economists see benefit-cost analysis as a rational, analytic tool that is neutral in its values. They assert that benefit-cost analysis is essential for complicated social issues. Our eloquence about the value of this framework has enabled us to convince Congress to write benefit­ cost analysis into various laws and ...
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis and Population

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000
Abstract A cost‐benefit analysis of an event must take account of the event's effect on population. Cost‐benefit analysts traditionally ignore these effects because they think that changes in the population are ethically neutral: neither benefits or costs. Although this view is intuitively plausible, it is false for theoretical reasons.
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Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit–Cost Analysis

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020
AbstractBenefit–cost analysis (BCA) is often viewed as measuring the efficiency of a policy independent of the distribution of its consequences. The role of distributional effects on policy choice is disputed; either: (a) the policy that maximizes net benefits should be selected and distributional concerns should be addressed through other measures ...
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Preoperative Immunonutrition: Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2005
Background: To evaluate whether preoperative immunonutrition might lead to a savings in patient care. Data on resources consumed to treat postoperative complications are scanty, but morbidity costs continue to be a major burden for any health care system.
Braga, M, GIANOTTI, LUCA VITTORIO
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An aggregate measure for benefit–cost analysis

Ecological Economics, 2006
The Kaldor–Hicks (KH) criterion has long been the standard for benefit–cost analyses, but it has also been widely criticized as ignoring equity and, arguably, moral sentiments in general. We suggest the use of an aggregate measure (KHM) instead of KH, where M stands for moral sentiments.
Bauman, Yoram, Finkle, Aaron, Zerbe, Jr., Richard O.   +2 more
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Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis [PDF]

Public Policy Review, 2006
This paper summarizes the procedure for the economic evaluation of government projects and policy reforms. It begins with the social welfare function underpinnings of cost-benefit analysis including the role of distributive weights and the choice of numeraire.
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Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effective Analysis in Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1982
Cost-benefit analysis and cost-effective analysis are formal analytical methods to provide a rational, objective means of comparing total costs with total benefits or of comparing effects in the selection of competing programs for financial support.
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Cost Benefit Analysis

Revue économique, 1972
J. E. Meade, E. J. Mishan
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benefit–cost analysis (cost–benefit analysis)

2010
David Levinson, Michael Corbett
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Cost-Benefit Analysis versus Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from a Societal Perspective in Healthcare

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
Robert J Brent
exaly