Managing Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-benefit analysis is regarded in this journal as a management tool, helping to evaluate the impacts in an appraisal. Case studies stress the factors to increase managerial discretion, and integration of non-valued impacts is demonstrated in addition to calculation presentation. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introducing the Case Studies....Pages 1-38 Health Care....Pages 39-71 Privatising Public Sector Assets....Pages 72-97 Assessing Transport Projects....Pages 98-125 Electricity Generation and the Case for Sizewell B....Pages 126-158 The Trees in the Forest....Pages 159-187 Land Drainage and Irrigation....Pages 188-213 ‘We Need A New Computer’....Pages 214-239 The Appraisal of Private Financing....Pages 240-270 Some Concluding Thoughts....Pages 271-273 Back Matter....Pages 274-286 This work sets out in some detail the nature of calculations required in practical cost-benefit analysis. It also considers non-priced benefits and costs in several relevant case studies. In addition to the more familiar applications in the areas of transport and forestry the authors consider examples such as computer selection; and discuss how it is possible to take several different views about the desirability of asset disposal in the public sector.