Efficiency and cost-benefit analysis

Handbook of Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 417-432

  Vining, Aidan R ^a   Weimer, David L ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781848608054.n25     Document Type: Chapter

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