Cost benefit analysis: An informal introduction,

Business & Money

E.J. Mishan

Management & Leadership

Allen& Unwin

First published in 1967, The Costs of Economic Growth argued that the offical figures for growth in real income were entirely compatible with a decline in human welfare. Twenty-five years later, this book remains the most persuasive and systematic demolition of the relgion of growth yet published, its arguments only reinforced by the growing social and environmental problems of the late twentieth century. For this new edition, a section on the myth of consumer sovereignty has been added, and the text has been revised and updated in the light of recent global perils and enviornmental degradation - acid rain, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, and worldwide pollution of land and sea. Nearer home the costs of growth include traffic blight, the destruction of the countryside and, more controversially, the hedonism, crime and conflicts of the permissive society.

The Costs of Economic Growth

Economics

Oxford University Press

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Should Malaysia build a new steel mill, or New York City an urban motorway? Should higher education expand, or water supplies be improved? These are typical questions to which cost-benefit analysis, the key economic tool for analyzing problems of social choice can contribute to, as well as providing a useful vehicle for understanding the practical value of welfare economics. This invaluable text covers the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. Cost-benefit analysis is used everywhere, but its techniques are particularly prominent in fields where there is some kind of ethical dimension. For this edition, E.J. Mishan has been joined by Euston Quah, to explore new themes, including the impact of uncertainty on cost-benefit analysis and to introduce a host of new and up-to-date case studies.

Euston Quah

Routledge

Pornography, Psychedelics And Technology

Taylor & Francis Group

Introduction to Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)

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