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1978 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Forty Years of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Author : Robert Dorfman

Published in: Econometric Contributions to Public Policy

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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This year is a triple anniversary. With great fanfare the United States is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. With considerable solemnity but less fanfare economists all over the world are celebratinglhe 200th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations. And with almost no fanfare whatsoever benefit-cost analysts are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their craft, which had its official inception in the Flood Control Act of 1936.1

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Title
Forty Years of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Author
Robert Dorfman
Copyright Year
1978
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16003-7_13