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The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2001

GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY
GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY
Affiliation:
Columbia University, 116th and Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA. E-mail: gc9@columbia.edu
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Abstract

Among the tools of the economic trade, cost-benefit analysis is the most widely used in policy circles. Asking whether there is a role for cost-benefit analysis is like asking whether there is a role for the weatherman. Of course there is.

Type
Policy Forum
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1997 , pp. 195 - 221
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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