Jules Dupuit and benefit-cost analysis: Making past to be the present

Antti Talvitie

Transport Policy, 2018, vol. 70, issue C, 14-21

Abstract: The paper reviews the enduring contributions of Jules Dupuit (1804–1866), Chief Engineer for the City of Paris and later Inspector-general of the Corps des Pont et Chaussees, on benefit-cost analysis, and his development of aggregate demand function for the identification of benefit, and consumer and producer surpluses as measures of utility.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.01.013

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