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cost benefit analysis

Cost benefit analysis is the method for determining whether a particular project or policy is socially worthwhile.  The positive impacts are reduced to their monetary equivalents and discounted back to the base time.  The sum is these values is called the social benefits of the project.  The corresponding negative impacts lead to the social costs of the projects.  If the social benefits exceed the social costs the project is...

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Date Added to MERLOT:
April 2, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:
January 3, 2019
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Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution
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Thayer Watkins
Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution
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High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

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