TY - BOOK AU - Boardman, Anthony E. AU - Greenberg, David H. AU - Vining, Aidan R. AU - Weimer, David L. TI - Cost-Benefit Analysis SN - 0-13-143583-3(PBK) U1 - 658.1554 BOA PY - 2006/// CY - New Jersey PB - G. Allen & Unwin KW - Cost effectiveness KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis KW - Expenditures, Public N1 - Includes Bibliographical References and Index N2 - This new edition has been thoroughly revised, expanded and updated. In particular, it contains an entirely new section on the Selection of Cost-Benefit Criteria which illuminates the basic rationale of the economic calculus. In addition, the second half of the section on Investment Criteria has been radically altered to produce a more crisp and lucid treatment of the essentials. It contains a general critique of the DPV method with regard to the more recent contributions to this controversial literature. Finally this new section tackles the inter-generation problem involved in long-term projects, a problem that has so far been evaded in the literature on investment criteria ER -