[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”
- Antonin Scalia

Cost Benefit Analysis

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Class 1 Concepts, Fundamental Rule, The Four Cases

Prep

  1. Stokey & Zeckhauser, ch. 9, pp. 134-45
  2. Ryan: Cost Benefit Analysis
  3. Wikipedia Cost Benefit Analysis
  4. Problems TBA (on concept and recognizing types)

Handout

Class 2

(Slides PDF KEY PPTX)
Prep

  1. Stokey & Zeckhauser, ch. 9, pp. 146-58
  2. Problem set 1

Handout

Lab

Prep

  1. TBA

Workshop

Class 3

Prep

  1. TBA

Handout

Class 4 Issues and Caveats

Prep

  1. TBA

Workshop

Lab

Prep

  1. TBA

Lab Instructions

Skills

Problems

Wiki Pages

See also

Portfolio

Problem Set 1
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Lab 1
Workshop 3
Workshop 4
Lab 2