Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) quantifies the economic damage associated with emitting a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Regulatory impact analyses from U.S. federal agencies utilize the ...

On November 9, the Office of Management and Budget issued a revised Circular A4 giving agencies guidance on the conduct of cost-benefit analysis. I know it is hard to write a more boring first ...

Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security regulations limiting investment, trade, and information ...

Health economics provides a framework for evaluating the allocation of limited resources in healthcare, ensuring that interventions not only deliver clinical benefit but also represent optimal use of ...