Objective or Multi-Objective? Two Historically Competing Visions for Benefit-Cost Analysis
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- B2 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
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