内容简介：
Features of this new edition: * Covering all concepts and procedures from common-sense and first principles, but also a reference book, for economists and non-economists, with a comprehensive index/glossary and many literature and internet references * Practical - based on many years experience of conducting, reporting and using CBA * Guidance on using computer software and avoiding its pitfalls * Gives guidance on the presentation and reporting of analyses, with a checklist and examples showing how to inform and satisfy multiple audiences * Describes the application of CBA to many particular fields, including health, education, transport, and the water sector * Shows how social, environmental and political aspects can be taken into account quantitatively * Deals explicitly with probabilities and uncertainty, including Monte-Carlo analysis * Contains pragmatic guidance on the formulation and packaging of projects, and of the without-project cases against which they are compared * Describes multi-criterion decision analysis, which can put CBA alongside other decision aids