Benefit-Cost Considerations Should be Decisive when there is Nothing more Important at Stake

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-68

  Randall, Alan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit cost considerations; Economic theoretic principles; Local governments; Market institutions; Public works

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948741505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693674.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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