Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Public Choice
Published in: Public Choice 3-4/2015

01-03-2015 | Book Review

Massimo Florio, Applied welfare economics: cost–benefit analysis of projects and policies

New York, NY: Routledge, 2014, xxv + 409 pages. USD 69.95 (paper)

Author: David Hollanders

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 3-4/2015

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Excerpt

Few books have to combine as many virtues as do economic textbooks. A textbook needs to explain theories in an accessible yet correct and rigorous way. Ideally, textbooks communicate that economics is a pluriform endeavour with different theoretical perspectives, without getting side tracked. And they are only fully satisfactory if theoretical insights come with empirical applications, which in turn should not be out dated a few years after publication. This is all to say that economic textbooks can, and indeed should, be evaluated with several criteria. It follows that no textbook is perfect, but that in turn implies that every new textbook can potentially add value. …
previous article Erratum to: Global economic crisis and corruption
next article William R. Keech, Economic Politics in the United States: The Costs and Risks of Democracy

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
Metadata
Title
Massimo Florio, Applied welfare economics: cost–benefit analysis of projects and policies
New York, NY: Routledge, 2014, xxv + 409 pages. USD 69.95 (paper)
Author
David Hollanders
Publication date
01-03-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Choice / Issue 3-4/2015
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0229-4

Other articles of this Issue 3-4/2015

Public Choice 3-4/2015 Go to the issue

Book Review

David Emanuel Andersson and Stefano Moroni (eds): Cities and private planning: property rights, entrepreneurship, and transaction costs

OriginalPaper

Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty

Book Review

Paul Dragos Aligica: Institutional diversity and political economy: the Ostroms and beyond

Book Review

John Dunn: Breaking Democracy’s Spell

Book Review

Benjamin Powell, Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy

OriginalPaper

Legitimacy and the cost of government