Multi-Criteria Analysis: "Good Enough" for Government Work?

Leo Dobes () and Jeffrey Bennett

Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2009, vol. 16, issue 3, 7-30

Abstract: Multi-criteria analysis (including Triple Bottom Line approaches) is fundamentally flawed in principle, and is open to abuse by special-interest groups. Its increased use poses a significant risk to the quality of policy formulation by Australian governments.

Date: 2009
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