Useful Texts

The links go to the publishers' web pages.

Adler, M. and Posner, E. (2006). New Foundations of Cost Benefit Analysis. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Boardman, A., Greenberg, D., Vining, A., Weimer, D. (2008) Cost-benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (5th Ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Brent, R. (2006). Applied Cost Benefit Analysis (2nd Ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Campbell, H. and Brown, R. (2003). Benefit-Cost Analysis: Financial and Economic Appraisal using Spreadsheets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Connolly, S. and Munro, A. (1999). Economics of the Public Sector. Harlow: FT Prentice Hall, Chapter 7: Cost-benefit Analysis.

Cooke, A. (1996). Economics and Construction. Basingstoke: MacMillan.

Dinwiddy, C. and Teal, F. (1996). Principles of Cost Benefit Analysis for Developing Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Graves, P. (2007). Environmental Economics: A Critique of Benefit-Cost Analysis. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Griffiths, A. and Wall, S. (2011). Applied Economics (12th Ed). Harlow: FT Prentice Hall, Chapter 10: The Economics of the Environment.

Hanley, N. Barbier, E., Bugas, J. (2009). Pricing Nature: Cost Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jha, R. (2010). Modern Public Economics. Oxon: Routledge.

Kelman, S. (2000). Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique. In Stavins, R. Economics of the Environment (4th Ed.), London: Norton and Company Inc.

Layard, R. and Glaister, S. (1994). Cost Benefit Analysis (2nd Ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mallard, G. and Glaister, S. (2008). Transport Economics. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. Chapter 13: Project Appraisal: Cost Benefit Analysis.

Mishan, E.J. and Quah, E. (2021). Cost Benefit Analysis (6th Ed.). Oxon: Routledge.

Muenning, P. (2007). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health: A Practical Approach (2nd Ed.). San Francisco: Wiley-Blackwell.

Orr, L. L. (1999). Social Experiments: Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Perman, R., Yue, M., McGilvray, J., Common, M. (2014). Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (4th Ed.). Harlow: FT Publishing International, Chapter 11: Cost Benefit Analysis.

Rossi, P.H., Lipsey, M. W., Freeman, H. E. (2018). Evaluation: A Systematic Approach (8th Ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications (Chapter 10).

Simon, C. A. (2026). Public Policy (4th Ed.). Longman (Chapter 8).

Sloman, J., Garrett, D., Guest, J., and Jones, E. (2024). Economics for Business (9th Ed.). Pearson, Chapter 19 "Investment and the employment of capital".

Small, K., Verhoef, E., and Lindsey, R. (2024). The Economics of Urban Transportation (3rd Ed.). London: Routledge.

Snell, M. (1997). Cost Benefit Analysis for Engineers and Planners. London: Thomas Telford Ltd.

Stiglitz, J. E. and Rosengard, J. K. (2015). Economics of the Public Sector. London: Norton, Chapter 11: Evaluating Public Expenditure.

Sugden, R. and Williams, A. (1978). The Principles of Practical Cost Benefit Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weimer, D. (Ed.) (2009). Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy. San Francisco: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

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