Marginal cost in the new economy : a proposal for a uniform approach to policy evaluations / Roger L. Conkling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conkling, Roger L., 1917- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Direct costing.

Policy sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents an approach for resolving a variety of public policy debates. It proposes that a single standard - marginal cost methodology - be adopted to replace the haphazard arrays of methods and techniques currenly employed to measure the costs and benefits of disputed policy issues.

Contents:

1. The challenge to orthodoxy

2. Reflections on the summers thesis

3. Marginal costs and marginalism : background and application

4. Achieving economic efficiency in regulated pricing, as framed by Alfred E. Kahn

5. School vouchers : an illustration of the methodology

6. Special cases : mixed issues/mixed methodologies

7. Antitrust

8. Concluding thoughts.

Notes:

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-70256-8

1-317-46522-9

9781315702568

OCLC:

908192067