 Social Cost—Benefit Analysis and the Shadow WageChapter Chapter 8 in Growth and Development, 1989, pp 204-219 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The literature and discussion about project choice and the allocation of resources has been dominated in recent years (since 1970) by social cost-benefit analysis. Social cost-benefit analysis is really the public analogue or equivalent of the present value method of private investment appraisal, but it has to take many things into account which adds to its complexity. The technique is recommended for the appraisal of publicly financed investment projects in order to allocate resources in a way most profitable to society, recognising that the market prices of goods and factors of production do not necessarily reflect their social value and costs, respectively, and given that society is concerned with the future level of consumption as well as the present, the level of current saving may be suboptimal. In a sense, social cost-benefit analysis tries to incorporate all the considerations that previous criteria have stressed as important to consider, and thus may be said to have superseded them. Keywords: Foreign Exchange; Marginal Product; Shadow Price; Indifference Curve; Domestic Prex (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19837-5_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19837-5_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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