Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...

Under the Trump administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of revamping its approach to the cost-benefit analysis it performs in support of its regulatory actions. These ...

The arrival of the palm oil industry in Indonesia’s Papua region has wrought more than five times as much environmental and social damage than the benefits it has delivered, according to a new ...

The move — revealed in emails and internal drafts — sidelined EPA’s deep bench of career economists. The White House circumvented EPA’s career staff to write almost half of the cost-benefit analysis ...

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This activity constitutes Phase 1 of a possible two-part effort directed towards guiding future benefit-cost studies, ensuring greater consistency and comparability across studies, and enhancing the ...