Cost-benefit analysis: A tool that is both useful and influential?

The Tools of Policy Formulation: Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 142-160

  Atkinson, Giles ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84958913181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781783477043.00018     Document Type: Chapter

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