Public investment criteria : benefit cost-analysis for planned economic growth

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Public investment criteria : benefit cost-analysis for planned economic growth

Stephen A. Marglin

(Routledge revivals)

Routledge, 2015

  • : hbk

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Public investment criteria : benefit-cost analysis for planned economic growth

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin , c1967

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book, first published in 1967, explores some of the problems formulating investment criteria for the public sector of a mixed-enterprise, underdeveloped economy. The typical essay on public investment criteria explicitly or implicitly postulates a single goal for economic analysis - maximization of weighted average of national income over time - and relegates all other objectives of public policy to a limbo of "political" and "social" objectives not amenable to systematic, rational treatment. In contrast Professor Marglin assumes a multiplicity of objectives and explores ways and means of expressing contributions to different objectives in common terms. The book also investigates the relationship of specific investment criteria to the objectives of public policy. Benefits and costs are defined separately for each objective, as are so-called "secondary" benefits. This book is suited for students of economics.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Superstructure 2. Specific Criteria 3. A Selective Summary
  • References
  • Index

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  • NCID
    BC11638907
  • ISBN
    • 9781138830653
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Abingdon, Oxon
  • Pages/Volumes
    103 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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