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The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis

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  • CHICHILNISKY, GRACIELA

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Among the tools of the economic trade, cost-benefit analysis is the most widely used in policy circles. Asking whether there is a role for cost-benefit analysis is like asking whether there is a role for the weatherman. Of course there is.

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  • Chichilnisky, Graciela, 1997. "The costs and benefits of benefit-cost analysis," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(2), pages 195-221, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:endeec:v:2:y:1997:i:02:p:195-221_23
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    2. Eugenio Figueroa & Roberto Pasten, 2014. "Economically valuing nature resources to promote conservation: An empirical application to Chile's national system of protected areas," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 93(4), pages 865-888, November.

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