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Benefit-cost in a Benevolent Society Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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How should benefit-cost analysis account for the value that benevolent individuals place on other people's pleasure from public goods? When adding up the benefits to be compared with costs, should we sum the private valuations, the altruistic valuations, or something else? This paper proposes a partial answer and offers some suggestions for benefit-cost practitioners.
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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number
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Keywords: benefit-cost altruism benevolent contingent valuation Other versions of this item:
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