TY - BOOK TI - Cost-benefit analysis SN - 0521461286 AV - HD 47 .4 .C67 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Cambridge University Press KW - AnĂ¡lisis de costos N1 - Introduction, 1 --; Part I. Theoretical issues --; 1. Shadow prices and markets: policy reform, shadow prices and market prices; J. Dreze and N. Stern, 59 --; 2. Shadow prices and markets: feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages; A.K. Sen, 100 --; 3. Discount rates: the rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best; J.E. Stiglitz, 116 --; 4. Risk and uncertainty: uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions; K.J. Arrow and R.C. Lind, 160 --; 5. Income distribution: allowing for income distribution; R. Layard and A.A. Walters, 179 --; 6. The costs and benefits of analysis: project appraisal and planning twenty years on; I.M.D. Little and J.A. Mirrlees, 199 --; Part II. How to value things --; 7. Time savings: research into the value of time; The MVA Consul Tancy et al., 235 --; 8. Safety and the saving of life: the theory of equalizing differences; S. Rosen, 272 --; 9. Safety and the saving of life: the economics of safety and physical risk; M.W. Jones-Lee, 290. 10. The environment: the environment and emerging development issues; P. Dasgupta and K.G. Maler, 319. 11. Exhaustible resources: resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of discount; P. Dasgupta, 349 --; Part III. Case studies --; 12. Regulation and deregulation: enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system; S.A. Morrison and C. Winston, 375 --; 13. Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads; D.M. Newbery, 396 --; 14. Public transport: the allocation of urban public transport subsidy; S. Glaister, 418 --; 15. Health care: QALYs and the equity - efficiency tradeoff; A. Wagstaff, 428 --; 16. Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries; D. Whittington, D.T. Lauria, D.A. Okun and X. Mu, 448 --; 17. The environment: assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry; D.W. Pearce, 464 --; Index, 491 ER -