... by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/88/$1.50 C. Courtois: an early contributor to cost-benefit analysis Reghinos D . Theocharis I. Introduction The aim of the present article is to introduce a hitherto unknown French...

... used cost-benefit analysis to improve government decision making, had considerable success in the 1960s and helped create offices of economists throughout the executive branch, but was losing momentum by 1970. The I/O group was, by the mid-1970s, working from the White House to reduce economic...

... to developing countries, became central. The field started to apply, systematically, tools such as cost-benefit analysis and input-output analysis; it also became much more formalized than it was before. The result of this transformation was a much more conventional application of theory to the problem...

... in the training simulation facilities that had been recently vacated by psychologists working at the RAND Systems Research Laboratory. Economists at the LSL interwove their marginal cost-benefit analysis with the psychologists' focus on process, adaptation, and group behavior. Over a decade, economists...

... and continues to this very day. Franqois Etner’s Histoire du calcul e‘conomique en France surveys this “hid- den” tradition in French economics. Etner labels this other tradition “cost- benefit analysis,” although I prefer the broader term “public economics.” The roots of public economics reach back...

...H. Spencer Banzhaf Economists have tried to incorporate the environment into the economic calculus by incorporating shadow values of environmental improvements into benefit-cost analysis and by designing policies to price pollution. Environmental economists tend to present these practices...

.... There is much in this book that no historian of economics should miss, including an absolutely delightful chapter on the political motives that led to the implementation of cost-benefit analysis, a healthy protopaedeutic for orthodox accounts that see it growing out of theoretical concerns...

.... ____. 1950b . The Development of Utility Theory: II. Journal of Political Economy 58.5 : 373 -96. Sugden, R., and A. Williams. 1979 . The Principles of Practical Cost-Benefit Analysis . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Thurstone, L. 1929 . The Measurement of Attitude . Chicago: University...

... of Trade of Developing Countries. What the Long Run Shows. World Bank Economic Review 2 : 1 –47. Leff , Nathaniel H. 1985 . The Use of Policy Science Tools in Public-Sector Decision Making: Social Benefit-Cost Analysis in the World Bank. Kyklos 38 : 60 –75. Little , I. M. D. , and J...

... of life (chapter 7). The argument starts with a discussion and a bit of a disparagement of cost benefit analysis, with the view attributed to Sen that the sole purpose of the Hicks-Kaldor compensation test is to justify policies that hurt people (189). The actual discussion of the value of life itself...

... Navier’s influence, as do the frequent reminders in his work on monopoly pricing that one of the chief benefits of canals and railroads is the expansion of the market. Like Minard-whose contributions to cost- benefit analysis existed in manuscript form as early as 1832 but were...

... and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Nonmarket Effects. Journal of Human Resources 19 (summer): 378 -407. Hough, J. R. 1994 . Educational Cost-Benefit Analysis. Education Economics 2.2 : 93 -128. Jaffe, Adam. 1989 . Real Effects of Academic Research. American Economic Review 79.5 : 957 -70...

... and the Notion of Creative Communities .” HOPE 43 ( 1 ): 225 – 46 . Niskanen William A. 1971 . Bureaucracy and Representative Government . Chicago : Aldine Atherton . Prest A. R. Turvey R. . 1965 . “ Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Survey .” Economic Journal 75 ( 300 ): 683 – 735...

... it currently does. Budgeting methods, input- output analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and a host of other governmental and corporate financial methods involve economic ideas and expertise. They do not, to be sure, amount to unproblematical applications of pure 10. A few distinguished examples...

... and private goods. Kautilya invari- ably applied cost-benefit analysis to every undertaking, including wag- ing a war. But he was against applying the usual cost-benefit analysis to the provision of national security, which he argued was too fundamen- tal to be decided by such calculations. According to him...

... was to show that “voter behavior analysis, as developed by these men, can be applied in only slightly modified form to political activity other than voting—specifically to revolutionary activity.” Conforming to public choice literature, his work studied revolutions through a microeconomic cost-benefit...

... Surenda J. 1962 . “ Economic Consequences of Disarmament .” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 18 , no. 9 : 7 – 12 . Prest A. Richard Turvey Ralph . 1965 . “ Cost-Benefit Analysis—A Survey .” Economic Journal 75 , no. 300 : 683 – 735 . Robertson Dennis J...

... on ethical and power considerations. Although the Pareto optimum concept appears in the Treatise, there also exists cost-benefit analysis of the Pigovian type, and at all times it is subsumed under the forces of psychology, knowledge, and power. Samuels shows that the Pareto optimum rule can...

... in French economics. Etner labels this other tradition “cost- benefit analysis,” although I prefer the broader term “public economics.” The roots of public economics reach back to the seventeenth century, but its for- mative period was the eighteenth century and its harvest time was the nine...

... (Solow); and a model of “natural environments in the context of cost-benefit analysis.” Hampicke suggests that the state of nature would be a much better one if the “neoclassical conception of natural resource environments” and its “tests of effi- ciency” had been rigorously applied during...