So cost-benefit analysis is rarely dispositive, but to say that costs are irrelevant is just misguided.
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"The bottom line is you have to do a cost-benefit analysis, " Arnold of CreditRatings.com said.
It is not that they are incapable of making "rational" cost-benefit calculations, by their own lights.
Whistle-blowers undoubtedly face significant risk and must do cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to come forward.
Indeed I regard uncertainties over cost-benefit calculations as insurmountable, yet I compile placeholder figures regardless.
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This is an industry which has largely managed to escape even basic cost-benefit analysis.
The findings of Mr Hahn and other cost-benefit analysts in America have not passed unchallenged, however.
Those who question cost-benefit analysis doubt that a price tag can ever be put on life.
Also to his credit, he has insisted on applying cost-benefit analysis to environmental legislation.
This article gives brand owners more reasons to question the cost-benefit of litigation over keyword advertising.
For example, experience with public-private partnerships shows that cost-benefit estimates can sometimes prove wildly optimistic.
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Developing countries will have to weigh the cost-benefit of full or partial participation in the globalized economy.
The IRS has failed to perform a cost-benefit analysis, as required by executive order 12866 .
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We should require rent-seeking analysis of each major regulation alongside the still rarely done cost-benefit analyses.
Whether or not this is fair to President George Bush's administration, is it fair to cost-benefit analysis?
This would affect the cost-benefit calculations of potential users of chemical weapons so as to discourage use.
Various industry lobbies and GOP Congressmen demanded that the SEC do a cost-benefit analysis on the rule.
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In today's cost-benefit analysis of fighting something in court vs. damaging your relationship with your consumers, relationships win.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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One reason is that in Britain they are subject to a cost-benefit assessment.
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Second, the essence of public health decision-making involves complex tradeoffs and cost-benefit calculations.
Which makes one wonder: where are all the economists, wringing their hands over cost-benefit analyses of these defense expenditures?
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
It should undermine the cocky assurance of anyone who claims that current cost-benefit analyses set prices rationally or compassionately.
She said that from a cost-benefit standpoint, it pays to address climate change.
Rigorous, hard, fact based Cost-Benefit Analysis has to be applied if the EZ is not to create another cash drain.
To be sure, some infrastructure projects might pass that cost-benefit test (perhaps electric grid modernization, or unclogging strategic rail bottlenecks).
She may be fully committed to the project, but for her Europe is a cost-benefit calculation rather than historical destiny.
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