Objective or multi-objective? Two historically competing visions for benefit-cost analysis

Land Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-23

  Banzhaf, H Spencer ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; POLICY ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 66549114715     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.85.1.3     Document Type: Article

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