Cost benefit analysis / edited by Richard Layard and Stephen Glaister

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glaister, Stephen, 1946- (ed.), Layard, P. R. G. (Peter Richard G.) (ed.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Introducción p. 1-56
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pte. 1. Theoretical Issues: 1. Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices / J. Drèze and N. Stern
  • 2. Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange shadow wages / A. K. Sen
  • 3. The rate of discount for cost benefit analysis and the theory of the second best / J. E. Stiglitz
  • 4. Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions / K. J. Arrow and R. C. Lind
  • 5. Allowing for income distributions / R. Layard and A. A. Walters
  • 6. Project appraisal and planning twenty years on / I. M. D. Little and J. A. Mirrlees
  • Pte. 2. How to value things: 7. Research into the value of time / The MVA Consultancy et al.
  • 8. The theory of equalising differences / S. Rosen
  • 9. The economics of safety and physical risk / M. W. Jones-Lee
  • 10. The environment and emerging development issues / P. Dasgupta and K. Maler
  • 11. Resource depletion, research and development, and the social rate of discount / P. Dasgupta
  • Pte. 3. Case Studies: 12. Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system / S. A. Morrison and C. Winston
  • 13. Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads / D. Newbery
  • 14. The allocation of urban transport subsidy / S. Glaister
  • 15. QUALYs and equity-efficiency tradeoff / A. Wagstaff
  • 16. Water vending activities in developing countries / D. Whittington, D. T. Lauria, D. A. Okun, and X. Mu
  • 17. Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry / D. W. Pearce.