Cost-Benefit Analysis (4th Edition) (The Pearson Series in Economics)

A Practical Introduction To Cost-benefit Analysis Through Problem Solving. This Authoritative, Market-leading Text Is Known For Its Consistent Application Of A Nine-step Framework For Conducting Or Interpreting A Cost-benefit Analysis. Part I: Overview -- Chapter 1. Introduction To Cost-benefit Analysis -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations Of Cost-benefit Analysis -- Part Ii: Fundamentals Of Cba -- Chapter 3. Economics Foundations Of Cost-benefit Analysis -- Chapter 4. Valuing Benefits And Costs In Primary Markets -- Chapter 5. Valuing Benefits And Costs In Secondary Markets -- Chapter 6. Discounting Benefits And Costs In Future Time Periods -- Chapter 7. Dealing With Uncertainty: Expected Values, Sensitivity Analysis, And The Value Of Information -- Chapter 8. Option Price And Option Value -- Chapter 9. Existence Value -- Chapter 10. The Social Discount Rate -- Part Iii: Valuation Of Impacts -- Chapter 11. Predicting And Monetizing Impacts -- Chapter 12. Valuing Impacts From Observed Behavior: Experiments And Quasi-experiments -- Chapter 13. Valuing Impacts From Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation Of Demand Curves -- Chapter 14. Valuing Impacts From Observed Behavior: Indirect Market Methods -- Chapter 15. Contingent Valuation: Using Surveys To Elicit Information About Costs And Benefits -- Chapter 16. Shadow Prices From Secondary Sources -- Chapter 17. Shadow Prices: Applications To Developing Countries -- Part Iv: Related Methods -- Chapter 18. Cost-effectiveness Analysis -- Chapter 19. Distributionally Weighted Cost-benefit Analysis -- Chapter 20. How Accurate Is Cba? Anthony E. Boardman ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.