UID:
almahu_9948633260902882
Format:
1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:
9781786435323 (e-book)
Series Statement:
Elgar guides to teaching
Content:
Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis is a unique look at the insights of internationally recognized teachers, researchers and practitioners addressing a difficult and controversial subject. Each chapter presents a self-contained module that includes guidance to additional resources, and many contain class exercises to provide detail and inspiration that extends beyond the scope of standard textbooks. The social evaluation of public investments by governments, international organizations and non-profits is an expanding field that encompasses both new and established areas of social policy. This book expands on the methods and issues central to the study of benefit-cost analysis, with specific topics including risk, societal distribution of impacts, limited versus national effects, the statistical value of a life and more. This book's focus on classroom engagement makes it a valuable resource for teachers of benefit-cost analysis. Its attention to foundational and advanced concepts will be of interest to undergraduate or Master's-level students of public policy, economics and related areas, as well as professional economists who apply benefit-cost analysis in their work.
Note:
Includes index.
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Contents: Preface: Teaching benefit-cost analysis -- Part I: The big picture -- 1. Decision rules / William K. Bellinger -- 2. Triangles and all that / Arnold C. Harberger -- 3. Defining the baseline / Charles Griffiths and Chris Dockins -- 4. The concept of standing in benefit-cost analysis / Richard O. Zerbe -- 5. Partial equilibrium versus general equilibrium evaluations or small versus large projects / Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kristrom -- 6. BCA and US regulatory review: finding a market failure / Susan E. Dudley -- 7. The essentials: a short course for young professionals / Gelsomina Catalano and Massimo Florio -- Part II: Challenging concepts and examples -- 8. Valuing statistical lives / Lisa A. Robinson -- 9. The arithmetic of efficiency--or the value of marginal analysis / John Mendeloff -- 10. Treatment of employing and disemploying workers / David Greenberg -- 11. Uncertainty and risk / Nicholas Treich -- 12. On defining and valuing the benefits of health policy interventions / David Salkever -- 13. Harmful addiction / David Weimer -- 14. Supplementing benefit-cost analysis: models for transport and land use decisions / Emile Quinet -- 15. Evaluating knowledge projects and r&d infrastructures with an example / Massimo Florio and Chiara Pancotti -- 16. Cost estimation in education: the ingredients method / Clive Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden and Henry M. Levin -- 17. Distributional accounting in benefit-cost analysis / Kerry Krutilla -- 18. Case studies in the classroom: lessons learned / Stuart Shapiro -- 19. Simulation: incorporating uncertainty / Scott Farrow -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786435316 (hardback)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books
URL:
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781786435316/9781786435316.xml
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