The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

Graciela Chichilnisky ()

Environment and Development Economics, 1997, vol. 2, issue 02, pages 195-221

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

Date: 1997

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