New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

by Eric A. Posner and Matthew Adler

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool of government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweigh their costs. Not surprisingly, CBA has been criticized by many who claim that it neglects, especially on the benefit side, important values that are hard to measure.

In this book, the authors reconceptualize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022793
• ISBN13: 9780674022799
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"