Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter

Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

A Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why Relative Economic Position Does Not Matter

The current debate over cost-benefit concerns in agencies’ evaluations of government regulations is not so much whether to consider costs and benefits at all but rather what belongs in the estimated costs and benefits themselves. Overlaid is the longstanding concern that the distribution of costs and benefits needs some consideration in policy evaluations. In a recent article in the University ...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Relative Position

there is no reason to think that the losers, in terms of relative position, had any entitlement to their antecedent relative position; and we are not, after all, speaking of redistribution from poor to rich. On distributional concerns and cost-benefit analysis, see various papers in Symposium, J. Legal Stud.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Economic Globalization

Argues that it is unrealistic to expect the net benefit of economic globalization to be represented by a single monetary figure because its consequences are diverse and several of its consequences are uncertain. The benefits of economic globalization are accessed in terms of its possible impact on the level of global production and exchange of commodities. Both static and dynamic analysis are c...